[dccp] FW: UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-22 Thread L.Wood
-IP-tunnel (or even GRE) and rely on decap at the endpoints... Does DCCP have any applications using it? Note that I am NOT expressing a preference for any particular draft here. We should not follow either approach. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-26 Thread L.Wood
ling complex protocols that still won't be used? Pointless. > The functionality could be as well be integrated into the IP stack, but > that would be somewhat more challenging. ...and won't happen. L. > > regards, > Jukka Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
... so there's no need to tunnel these over UDP to get through NAT. actual applications running on an actual end-user computer with a TCP/IP stack, please. On 26 Apr 2010, at 23:49, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: > L.Wood, > > Hmmm. SIGTRAN requires SCTP. SIGTRAN is widely

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
-variant screwdrivers. And there was consensus that the OSI protocols would be useful and a lot of workgroups were formed. So? (Approach to follow? Neither) Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood From: Michael Welzl [mich...@ifi.uio.no] Sent: 27 April 2010

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
t this approach is stuck with, I think. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood From: Fred Baker [f...@cisco.com] Sent: 27 April 2010 10:55 To: Lars Eggert Cc: bidul...@openss7.org; dccp@ietf.org; tsv-a...@ietf.org; tsvwg list; Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng)

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
complicated way to do UDP tunnelling instead of just doing UDP tunnelling won't change that. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood From: Michael Welzl [mich...@ifi.uio.no] Sent: 27 April 2010 12:08 To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Cc: dccp@ietf.org; tsv

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
te what is being done here with a > particular weird encap, as well as the original ports on the interior packet, > is something that this approach is stuck with, I think. > > Lloyd Wood > http://sat-net.com/L.Wood > > From: Fred Baker

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
e? > > All this effort to save a few bytes tunnelling complex protocols that still > won't be used? Pointless. > >> The functionality could be as well be integrated into the IP stack, >> but that would be somewhat more challenging. > > ...and won't happen. The SCTP/UDP encapsulation is implemented in FreeBSD and part of the SCTP kernel implementation for Mac OS X. Best regards Michael > > L. > >> >> regards, >> Jukka > > Lloyd Wood > l.w...@surrey.ac.uk > http://sat-net.com/L.Wood > > > >

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and DCCP -- why not just tunnel it?

2010-04-27 Thread L.Wood
n > > headers and pseudo-header' to decrease the computational overhead - > > that should be a fixed value. > > > > Using a UDP (or lite) port to indicate what is being done here with > > a particular weird encap, as well as the original ports on the > > in

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and DCCP -- why not just tunnel it?

2010-04-28 Thread L.Wood
a unique loopback address with each different connection and state becomes very straightforward...) Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood From: Phelan, Tom [tphe...@sonusnet.com] Sent: 28 April 2010 14:36 To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng); aco...@optonl

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-05-18 Thread L.Wood
do matter. >> >> Thanks, >> Lars >> >> PS: I'm pushing on this topic, because UDP encapsulation is the last >> remaining work item in the DCCP working group before it can close... > Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] UDP encaps for SCTP and SCCP

2010-05-22 Thread L.Wood
so there's no need to tunnel these over UDP to get through NAT. >> >> actual applications running on an actual end-user computer with a >> TCP/IP stack, please. >> >> On 26 Apr 2010, at 23:49, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: >> >>> L.Wood, >>&g

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread L.Wood
cation for the UDP-Lite in UDP encap, where handwaving will be used to justify turning off the outer UDP checksum for IPv4! L. Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood On 8 Oct 2010, at 09:19, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > On 10/5/10 12:32 PM, Phelan, Tom wrote: > >>

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-09 Thread L.Wood
need > to think about that a little more. Some reading may help, but the RFCs and most textbooks aren't very good at explaining decisions behind design choices. That leaves Stevens vol. 1, which doesn't contain lessons illustrated by modern transport protocol examples - and isn't bothered by NATs. Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] status of draft-ietf-dccp-udpencap

2010-10-27 Thread L.Wood
> what is the status of draft-ietf-dccp-udpencap? deader than dccp itself, I believe.

Re: [dccp] status of draft-ietf-dccp-udpencap

2010-11-29 Thread L.Wood
Oh. It's still not dead? -Original Message- From: dccp-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:dccp-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Pasi Sarolahti Sent: 29 November 2010 14:00 To: dccp@ietf.org group Subject: Re: [dccp] status of draft-ietf-dccp-udpencap Hi all, People must have been wondering about t

Re: [dccp] draft-ietf-dccp-udpencap-03 - 6-tuple

2011-01-10 Thread L.Wood
Um, the U in UDP stands for User. As in, userspace. A kernel implementation of this hack? It would need users first. -Original Message- From: dccp-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:dccp-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Eddie Kohler Sent: 10 January 2011 15:12 To: Pasi Sarolahti Cc: go...@erg.abdn.

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-04 Thread L.Wood
As an actual native English speaker on this thread, I would use 'cannot' for 'cannot obtain', as it indicates an impossibility, never a choice, but stay with 'can not' in the other cases. I cannot live forever; I don't get the choice. I can not care about this silly thread, but I choose to post reg

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-04 Thread L.Wood
idiomatic text should be avoided in technical writing. > -Original Message- > From: dccp-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:dccp-boun...@ietf.org] On > Behalf Of Eddie Kohler > Sent: 04 March 2011 15:27 > To: Gerrit Renker > Cc: dccp@ietf.org group > Subject: Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-04 Thread L.Wood
could keep it as it is, the >>> suggestion confuses me: >>>> can is a verb, not the negation, cannot is spoken language, the >>>> document is written text. I actually replace everywhere I >>> see this the >>>> other way around, since I read somewhere that cannot in >>> written text >>>> is not considered good style. If you can give a rule for >>> the above, I >>>> am willing to be educated on the matter. Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-04 Thread L.Wood
his time or > not. (I am guessing the RFC Editor will change it later anyway.) > > Lars Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-05 Thread L.Wood
tid=655717 > Can we please focus on the technical discussion and not at grammar nit fixing? of DCCP? What's the point? Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-05 Thread L.Wood
CCP deployment to get to widespread TFRC use is unlikely to happen. How best to get widespread adoption of TFRC itself? Lloyd Wood l.w...@surrey.ac.uk http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ > -Original Message- > From: dccp-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:dccp-boun...@ietf.org] On > Behalf Of Mich

Re: [dccp] AD review: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-rtt-option-03

2011-03-05 Thread L.Wood
what matters, while widespread DCCP >> deployment for applications to rely on appears to me to be a lost cause even >> with the kludging to make DCCP run over UDP. >> >> It's an algorithm deployment issue, not a protocol deployment issue. The >> goal i