Yaakov Stein wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday the chairs and Silvana, who is co-editor of the requirements > draft, > discussed the progress of this draft. > > The requirements draft tries to cover quite a number of areas for which > timing is relevant, > and while there has been significant participation from the cellular and > TDM PW communities, > there has been inadequate input on most of the other areas. > > In particular, for the areas > * industrial applications > * test and measurement > * electric power and teleprotection > we have no data other than that "pulled out of the air" at the Paris > meeting, > and no one has expressed interest in providing insights into their > requirements. >
I second this request. One of the things I struggle with is the difference between what people say they want and what are the consequences of not getting what they say they want. I have yet to see that written down anywhere and I don't have funding to get to the meetings. So in order to clarify the requirements I'd like to ask that for each area they following questions be answered: 1) What timing requirements do they need, with upper limits to accuracy in offset, jitter, frequency, phase, etc. 2) What are the consequences if they cannot get the requirements requested? 3) What can they achieve today? 4) Give at least one example of an application/infrastructure that exist today and what it will be able to do tomorrow if it is able to achieve the specified requirements. I don't see any way of going forward at a practical level with these requirements without an understanding of this. Danny > On the one hand TICTOC needs to consider all of the applications that > will need to distribute timing, > but on the other hand if groups with interest in particular applications > do not join in the effort, > we will not be able to produce a meaningful document. > > Please consider this email as a call for participation for the > aforementioned areas. > If you are working or interested in them, please send an email to the list. > If you know people who are, please forward this email to them. > > If we do not receive input that we believe reliably reflects the > requirements of these areas, > we will have to drop them from the document, and thus remove them > from consideration > while working on solutions. _______________________________________________ TICTOC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tictoc
