Re: [bmwg] WG Adoption Call for draft-vassilev-bmwg-network-interconnect-tester-07

[t petch <[e-mail]>]

On 13/12/2021 17:46, Vladimir Vassilev wrote:
> Hi Tom and Gabor,
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> On 13/12/2021 13.08, Gábor LENCSE wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> To be honest, I haven't read the draft.
>>
>> I just wonder, if the entire draft is about CSMA/CD. As time passes,
>> Ethernet is practically used full duplex, so I think it should be of
>> primary interest.
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> The draft is not about CSMA/CD in particular. It is targeting any
> networking technology where the data plane in any of the interface
> directions can be represented as a stream of octets. And where the
> stream of octets consists of a sequence of 1. frames and 2. interframe
> gaps.

I continue to oppose adoption until the I-D has a less clunky and more 
accurate title.

Reading YANG modules in the I-D, it is clear that the focus is on such 
as IEEE802, IEEE1588, MAC address, Ethernet, burst, interframe gap etc 
so while the approach is valid for a number of protocols there are 
plenty more for which it is invalid.  That limitation should be 
reflected in the title.

Tom Petch

> While not spelled out this is also true for RFC2544.
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> /Vladimir
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>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Gábor
>>
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