Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-11 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
11.01.2011 13:36, t.petch wrote: - Original Message - From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: "Mykyta Yevstifeyev" Cc: "Bob Hinden";; "IETF Discussion" Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:06 AM Mykyta, RDP is still in use (I know of companies using it). It is used heavily as a transport for a

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-11 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: "Mykyta Yevstifeyev" Cc: "Bob Hinden" ; ; "IETF Discussion" Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:06 AM > Mykyta, > > RDP is still in use (I know of companies using it). It is > used heavily as a transport for a "popular brand" of NAS fo

RE: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-10 Thread Doug Ewell
Eric Rosen wrote: > So RDP is a useful and deployed pre-standards protocol that was one of the > driving forces behind a successful standardization effort. But newer > applications that need that kind of transport instead use the standard, > SCTP. > > I don't know how one could possibly make a

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-10 Thread Eric Rosen
> RDP is still in use > was the initial transport used for gateway control (such as SGCP) until > SCTP was developed. > Many commercial gateways still support these older pre-standard (to > MEGACO) control protocols. Some older devices still provisioned in the > network only support the older p

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-10 Thread Brian F. G. Bidulock
Mykyta, RDP is still in use (I know of companies using it). It is used heavily as a transport for a "popular brand" of NAS for dial access call control and was a precursor to MEGACO/H.248. RDP was the initial transport used for gateway control (such as SGCP) until SCTP was developed. Many commer

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-10 Thread John C Klensin
+1 --On Friday, January 07, 2011 09:15 -0500 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > I'm not keen to start a language war, but. . . > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Mykyta Yevstifeyev > wrote: > >> Moreover, 'obsoleted' means the same as 'deprecated' or >> 'non-current' (see >> http://www.syno

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
08.01.2011 12:55, Mykyta Yevstifeyev ?: 07.01.2011 21:53, Bob Hinden wrote: Mykyta, On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello all, There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport layer protocols - exactly IRTP (RFC938), RDP (RFC908,1151) and NET

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
08.01.2011 18:57, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, January 07, 2011 21:26 -0800 Dave CROCKER wrote: On 1/6/2011 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. We assign labels to indicate the status of the speci

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Doug Ewell
Bob Hinden replied to Mykyta: If you think RFC20206 is wrong, then propose changes to it and see if people agree with the changes. Until it is changed, IMHO you should not propose actions based on what you as an individual think is incorrect. There needs to be a community consensus that RFC2

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, > I think that the author of RFC2026 was wrong while writing the definition of > Historic status. This document says that Historic should be assigned only to > that documents that were standards and now are obsolete. But why do we need > such narrow definition? Non-standards RFCs are not ma

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, January 07, 2011 21:26 -0800 Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 1/6/2011 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: >> Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have >> later been replaced/deprecated. > > > We assign labels to indicate the status of the specification, > not the statu

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
08.01.2011 18:12, Lixia Zhang wrote: On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: 07.01.2011 21:53, Bob Hinden wrote: Mykyta, On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello all, There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport layer protocols -

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
08.01.2011 18:02, Lixia Zhang wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: 06.01.2011 23:45, Doug Ewell wrote: Lixia Zhang wrote: PS: on the other hand, what would a "historical status" imply? the ideas obsolete? Every now and then, someone proposes to move a given RFC

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > 07.01.2011 21:53, Bob Hinden wrote: >> Mykyta, >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport >>> layer protocols - exactly

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > 06.01.2011 23:45, Doug Ewell wrote: >> >> Lixia Zhang wrote: >> >>> PS: on the other hand, what would a "historical status" imply? the ideas >>> obsolete? >> Every now and then, someone proposes to move a given RFC to Historic, >> not

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
08.01.2011 7:26, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 1/6/2011 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. We assign labels to indicate the status of the specification, not the status of a service that might use it. But the sp

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/6/2011 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. We assign labels to indicate the status of the specification, not the status of a service that might use it. We say 'experimental' to mean that we thinks i

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
07.01.2011 21:53, Bob Hinden wrote: Mykyta, On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello all, There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport layer protocols - exactly IRTP (RFC938), RDP (RFC908,1151) and NETBLT (RFC998). Initially there have been prop

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Mykyta, On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > Hello all, > > There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport layer > protocols - exactly IRTP (RFC938), RDP (RFC908,1151) and NETBLT (RFC998). > Initially there have been proposed to define IANA considera

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread RJ Atkinson
Before today, Bob Braden wrote: > Historic might imply that they were once in service, > but have later been replaced/deprecated. In fact, these > protocols were always, and are still, *experimental*. > It would seem logical to assign them the Experimental > category and be done with it. +1

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: "Lixia Zhang" To: "Bob Braden" Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:08 PM > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: > > > > Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. In fact, these protocols were a

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
I'm not keen to start a language war, but. . . On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > Moreover, 'obsoleted' means the same as 'deprecated' or 'non-current' > (see http://www.synonym.com/synonyms/obsolete/ or > http://dictionary.sensagent.com/obsolete/en-en/#syno

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Eliot Lear
On 1/7/11 7:39 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: > 07.01.2011 8:30, Donald Eastlake wrote: >> I have also seen attempts to make a standard Historic with the >> supposed reason being to "clear things out" for the introduction of >> some better replacement. That seems like just nonsense to me. If it is

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
07.01.2011 8:30, Donald Eastlake wrote: I have also seen attempts to make a standard Historic with the supposed reason being to "clear things out" for the introduction of some better replacement. That seems like just nonsense to me. If it is so obvious that a replacement is superior, the replacem

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Donald Eastlake
I have also seen attempts to make a standard Historic with the supposed reason being to "clear things out" for the introduction of some better replacement. That seems like just nonsense to me. If it is so obvious that a replacement is superior, the replacement document can do the move of earlier do

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
06.01.2011 23:45, Doug Ewell wrote: Lixia Zhang wrote: PS: on the other hand, what would a "historical status" imply? the ideas obsolete? Every now and then, someone proposes to move a given RFC to Historic, not merely to reflect an observation that a process or protocol is obsolete, but as

RE: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Doug Ewell
Lixia Zhang wrote: > PS: on the other hand, what would a "historical status" imply? the ideas > obsolete? Every now and then, someone proposes to move a given RFC to Historic, not merely to reflect an observation that a process or protocol is obsolete, but as an active attempt to deprecate it,

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: > > Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been > replaced/deprecated. In fact, these protocols were always, and are still, > *experimental*. It would seem logical to assign them the Experimental > category and be do

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Brim
On 01/06/2011 15:40 EST, Bob Braden wrote: > > Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been > replaced/deprecated. In fact, these protocols were always, and are > still, *experimental*. It would seem logical to assign them the > Experimental category and be done with i

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Bob Braden
Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. In fact, these protocols were always, and are still, *experimental*. It would seem logical to assign them the Experimental category and be done with it. Bob Braden On 1/5/2011 9:44 PM, Mykyta Yev

Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-05 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
Hello all, There have been a discussion on tsvwg mailing list about old transport layer protocols - exactly IRTP (RFC938), RDP (RFC908,1151) and NETBLT (RFC998). Initially there have been proposed to define IANA considerations for them. But after a discussion it was found out that it would be