Re: [core] John Scudder's Discuss on draft-ietf-core-new-block-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

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Hi John,

Thank you for the detailed review. Much appreciated. 

Changes can be tracked at: https://tinyurl.com/new-block-latest 

Please see inline. 

Cheers,
Jon & Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
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> Objet : John Scudder's Discuss on draft-ietf-core-new-block-11: (with
> DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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> DISCUSS:
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> 
> For the most part I found this document relatively easy to follow,
> considering my complete lack of background in CoAP. However, despite
> a concerted effort I have not been able to nail down with confidence
> what the intended semantics of several of your timeouts are, notably
> NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT. Some of the text (for example, §4.4) implies
> that the timeout is an upper bound on how long an implementation
> should wait before declaring a block to have been lost (“The client
> SHOULD wait for up to NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT”).

The text around the timeout values have been made absolute (as per your COMMENTS), removing "up to", etc., and once the timeout has expired, then the next activity takes place. Does this help clarify things?

 At the very least, this
> is imprecise because the timeout increases exponentially with
> repeated timeouts — but this is a relatively minor matter, discussed
> further in my comments.
> 
> Later, in §7.2, you say that expiry of the timeout is not the only
> trigger for a 4.08 response:
> 
>    It is likely that the client will start transmitting the next set
> of
>    MAX_PAYLOADS payloads before the server times out on waiting for
> the
>    last of the previous MAX_PAYLOADS payloads.  On receipt of the
> first
>    payload from the new set of MAX_PAYLOADS payloads, the server
> SHOULD
>    send a 4.08 (Request Entity Incomplete) Response Code indicating
> any
>    missing payloads from any previous MAX_PAYLOADS payloads.
> 
> It makes sense to me that you use this additional trigger. At this
> point in my reading of the spec, my understanding of the
> retransmission algorithm was that a 4.08 should be sent when either a
> payload is received from a new set of MAX_PAYLOADS, or
> NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT expires. But then I got to the example in 10.2.3,

The text you quoted is for Q-Block1, 10.2.3 is about Q-Block2. 

> which shows the client waiting for the expiration of
> NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT even though it has received the first of a new
> set of MAX_PAYLOADS, and I concluded that either I’ve missed
> something basic, or the document is internally inconsistent.

The client follows this behavior:

   The client SHOULD wait for up to NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2)
   after the last received payload for NON payloads before issuing a
   GET, POST, PUT, FETCH, PATCH, or iPATCH request that contains one or
   more Q-Block2 Options that define the missing blocks with the M bit
   unset.  The client MAY set the M bit to request this and later blocks
   from this MAX_PAYLOADS set.  

> 
> As an aside, I’m also unclear as to why the only trigger you specify
> for sending a 4.08 is the arrival of the first of a new MAX_PAYLOADS

"First" is not used in reference the block order in the next block, but the first one received. I see this is confusing. Made this change: s/the first/a

> flight. Other possible triggers I noticed include a gap in the
> sequence, and reception of a payload with More=0.
> 
> Some of these issues are repeated in my comments, below — I’ve noted
> those in the comment. Possibly in addressing this DISCUSS we’ll clear
> up some of those comments too.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> COMMENT:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> 
> Comments:
> 
> (draft-ietf-core-new-block-11)
> 
> 1. Section 3.2
> 
>    This mechanism is not intended for general CoAP usage, and any use
>    outside the intended use case should be carefully weighed against
> the
>    loss of interoperability with generic CoAP applications.
> 
> I’m curious: is the only reason the mechanism isn’t intended for
> general usage, the fact some implementations won’t support it? Or
> does it have other deficiencies that also make it unsuitable?

This is because the general application case may require touching other parts of the block-wise (interference with caching, mixing CON/NON, etc.). Also, the congestion control guards are good enough for the target case as we do have an indication at the DOTS level if the peers are not overloaded (heartbeats) and able to negotiate the probing-rate. Such features may not be available in the generic CoAP case. 

> 
> 2. Section 4.1
> 
>    Q-Block2 Option is useful with GET, POST, PUT, FETCH, PATCH, and
>    iPATCH requests and their payload-bearing responses (2.01, 2.02,
>    2.03, 2.04, and 2.05) (Section 5.5 of [RFC7252]).
> 
> I found the list of codes incomprehensible on first encountering it,
> since the concept of response codes hadn’t been introduced yet. I do
> understand that the document assumes familiarity with CoAP;
> nonetheless for basic clarity I think this should say “(response
> codes 2.01, 2.02…”. Additionally, the reference to RFC 7252 §5.5
> doesn’t seem to be especially germane?

The key element in the text you quoted is "payload-bearing responses". Hence the pointer to 5.5 of RFC7252.

> 
> By the way, is 2.03 indeed a payload-bearing response? The only other
> place the spec touches on it is in §4.4, which says “the server could
> respond with a 2.03
> (Valid) response with no payload”.
> 

Noted. 

> 3. Section 4.1
> 
>    To indicate support for Q-Block2 responses, the CoAP client MUST
>    include the Q-Block2 Option in a GET or similar request (FETCH,
> for
>    example), the Q-Block2 Option in a PUT or similar request, or the
>    Q-Block1 Option in a PUT or similar request so that the server
> knows
>    that the client supports this Q-Block functionality should it need
> to
>    send back a body that spans multiple payloads.  Otherwise, the
> server
>    would use the Block2 Option (if supported) to send back a message
>    body that is too large to fit into a single IP packet [RFC7959].
> 
> Is this paragraph really supposed to mention both Q-Block2 and Q-
> Block1?

Yes, because: 

   A CoAP endpoint (or proxy) MUST support either both or neither of the
   Q-Block1 and Q-Block2 Options.

 In particular, I’m confused by the mention of both of these
> in relation to PUT.

The server will ignore the option if it supports it, otherwise it will send an error as this is critical option. The purpose is to notify/check Q-Block is supported. 

> 
> 4. Section 4.1
> 
>    The Q-Block1 and Q-Block2 Options are unsafe to forward.  That is,
> a
>    CoAP proxy that does not understand the Q-Block1 (or Q-Block2)
> Option
>    MUST reject the request or response that uses either option.
> 
> Presumably (hopefully) this is simply describing the behavior of
> existing spec-compliant proxies when processing the new messages. As
> such, is the MUST appropriate? I would think not.

This is only for those that are tagged as unsafe to forward. The normative language is OK. 

> 
> 5. Section 4.3
> 
>       body.  Note that the last received payload may not be the one
> with
>       the highest block number.
> 
> “Might not” would be less ambiguous than “may not”.
> 

Fixed. Thanks.


> 6. Section 4.4 (also two places in §4.3)
> 
> (This comment rehashes, in more detail, the difficulty explained in
> my DISCUSS.
> You may want to skip over it until we’ve resolved the DISCUSS, after
> which this may, or may not, be relevant.)
> 
>    The client SHOULD wait for up to NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2)
> 
> I read this as meaning the client should wait for as little as zero,
> or as long as NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT — that’s my understanding of “up
> to”. Is that the intended meaning? If it is, I think it’s worth
> writing out as I’ve done, for clarity. If it’s not, it definitely
> needs to be fixed.
> 
> There’s a similar issue with “up to NON_PARTIAL_TIMEOUT” later in the
> section.
> 
> Referring ahead to Section 7.2 muddies the waters further. Even
> though the text quoted above says NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT is an upper
> limit on how long to wait,
> §7.2 says it’s a lower limit instead... maybe? From §7.2:
> 
>    NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT is the initial maximum time to wait for a
> missing
> 
> “Maximum”, ok great, that means “upper bound” and so lines up with
> §4.4 although the “initial” is surprising since §4.4 doesn’t say
> anything about the upper limit increasing. It continues:
> 
>    payload before requesting retransmission for the first time.
> Every
>    time the missing payload is re-requested, the time to wait value
>    doubles.  The time to wait is calculated as:
> 
>       Time-to-Wait = NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT * (2 ** (Re-Request-Count -
> 1))
> 
> But this part says it’s (a) an exact time-to-wait, not a “maximum”,
> and (b) it says it increases exponentially, so NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
> isn’t a maximum at all, but a minimum.

It is an exact time to wait when there is no packets. We made these changes: 

(1)
OLD:
  The client SHOULD wait for up to NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2)

NEW: 
  The client SHOULD wait for NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2)

(2)

OLD: 
   payloads) for up to NON_PARTIAL_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2).

NEW: 
   payloads) for NON_PARTIAL_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2).


> 
> This later text in §7.2 implies that perhaps the problem in the above
> passages is the word “maximum”, and it should simply be deleted:

Fair comment. We made these changes: 

(1)
OLD:
  NON_TIMEOUT is the maximum period of delay

NEW:
  NON_TIMEOUT is the period of delay

(2)
OLD:
  NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT is the initial maximum time to wait

NEW:
  NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT is the initial time to wait

> 
>    For the server receiving NON Q-Block1 requests, it SHOULD send
> back a
>    2.31 (Continue) Response Code on receipt of all of the
> MAX_PAYLOADS
>    payloads to prevent the client unnecessarily delaying.  If not all
> of
>    the MAX_PAYLOADS payloads were received, the server SHOULD delay
> for
>    NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (exponentially scaled based on the repeat
> request
>    count for a payload) before sending the 4.08 (Request Entity
>    Incomplete) Response Code for the missing payload(s).
> 
> Similarly “up to” in the quote that began this comment should be “at
> least”.

Fixed above by complete removal of "up to".

> 
> Whether you adopt those suggestions or not,  it seems as though all
> this needs to be rewritten with careful attention to conveying what
> the desired behavior is.
> 
> But the plot thickens. Later in §7.2 we have
> 
>    It is likely that the client will start transmitting the next set
> of
>    MAX_PAYLOADS payloads before the server times out on waiting for
> the
>    last of the previous MAX_PAYLOADS payloads.  On receipt of the
> first
>    payload from the new set of MAX_PAYLOADS payloads, the server
> SHOULD
>    send a 4.08 (Request Entity Incomplete) Response Code indicating
> any
>    missing payloads from any previous MAX_PAYLOADS payloads.
> 
> The point being that the retransmission request can be triggered by
> an event other than timer expiration. So in that sense, “maximum” is
> right — it provides an upper bound on how long to wait before
> requesting a retransmission — but in another sense it’s wrong because
> the exponential increase is applied to it. I think the word “maximum”
> is trying to do too much work, and more words are probably required
> in order to make this clear. I also think the problem is exacerbated
> by the fact both §4.4 and §7.2 are talking normatively about how to
> use NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT. It seems as though the main description is
> found in §7.2, and some confusion would be avoided by making §4.4
> less specific, and simply referring forward to §7.2.
> 

We hope the changes above clarify this.

> And, as noted in my DISCUSS, example 10.2.3 muddies the waters still
> further since it illustrates yet another behavior.
> 
> 7. Section 4.4
> 
>    The client SHOULD wait for up to NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (Section 7.2)
>    after the last received payload for NON payloads before issuing a
>    GET, POST, PUT, FETCH, PATCH, or iPATCH request that contains one
> or
>    more Q-Block2 Options that define the missing blocks with the M
> bit
>    unset.  The client MAY set the M bit to request this and later
> blocks
>    from this MAX_PAYLOADS set.  Further considerations related to the
>    transmission timing for missing requests are discussed in
>    Section 7.2.
> 
> I find this whole paragraph pretty confusing with the dueling SHOULD
> and MAY, where it appears the SHOULD might be doing two jobs at once.
> I *think* your intent is something like the following?
> 
> “The client SHOULD wait as specified in Section 7.2 for NON payloads
> before requesting retransmission of any missing blocks.
> Retransmission is requested by issuing a GET, POST, PUT, FETCH,
> PATCH, or iPATCH request that contains one or more Q-Block2 Options
> that define the missing block(s). Generally the M bit on the Q-Block
> option(s) SHOULD be unset, although the M bit MAY be set to request
> this and later blocks from this MAX_PAYLOADS set, see Section 10.2.4
> for an example of this in operation.”
> 

Thanks. We went with this change: 

   For NON payloads, the client SHOULD wait NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
   (Section 7.2) after the last received payload before requesting
   retransmission of any missing blocks.  Retransmission is requested by
   issuing a GET, POST, PUT, FETCH, PATCH, or iPATCH request that
   contains one or more Q-Block2 Options that define the missing
   block(s).  Generally the M bit on the Q-Block2 Option(s) SHOULD be
   unset, although the M bit MAY be set to request this and later blocks
   from this MAX_PAYLOADS set, see Section 10.2.4 for an example of this
   in operation.


> 8. Section 5
> 
>    If the size of the 4.08 (Request Entity Incomplete) response
> packet
>    is larger than that defined by Section 4.6 [RFC7252], then the
> number
>    of missing blocks MUST be limited so that the response can fit
> into a
>    single packet.  If this is the case, then the server can send
> 
> Suggestion: “then the number of missing blocks reported MUST...” (The
> thing being limited is not the actual number of missing blocks.
> You’re limiting the number you report on.)

Agree. Fixed. 

> 
> 9. Section 7.1
> 
>    It is implementation specific as to whether there should be any
>    further requests for missing data as there will have been
> significant
>    transmission failure as individual payloads will have failed after
>    MAX_TRANSMIT_SPAN.
> 
> This paragraph seems as though it’s a non-sequitur. It just doesn’t
> make sense to me. :-(
> 

Changed to:

   Following the failure to transmit a packet due to packet loss after
   MAX_TRANSMIT_SPAN time (Section 4.8.2 of [RFC7252]), whether there
   should be any further requests for missing data is implementation
   specific.


> 10. Section 7.2
> 
> (This comment relates to the difficulty explained in my DISCUSS. You
> may want to skip over it until we’ve resolved the DISCUSS, after
> which this may, or may not, be relevant.)
> 
>    NON_TIMEOUT is the maximum period of delay between sending sets of
>    MAX_PAYLOADS payloads for the same body.  By default, NON_TIMEOUT
> has
>    the same value as ACK_TIMEOUT (Section 4.8 of [RFC7252]).
> 
> Presumably the use of “maximum” means it’s fine to delay zero seconds
> (or any value lower than NON_TIMEOUT).

"maximum" has been deleted as per previous comments, thus implying an exact match.

> 
> 11. General
> 
> By the way, none of the timers specify jitter (and indeed, if read
> literally, jitter would be forbidden). Is this intentional?

No +/- tolerances have been defined. When a timer expires, then the next action takes place.

> 
> 12. Section 7.2
> 
>    If the CoAP peer reports at least one payload has not arrived for
>    each body for at least a 24 hour period and it is known that there
>    are no other network issues over that period, then the value of
>    MAX_PAYLOADS can be reduced by 1 at a time (to a minimum of 1) and
>    the situation re-evaluated for another 24 hour period until there
> is
>    no report of missing payloads under normal operating conditions.
> The
>    newly derived value for MAX_PAYLOADS should be used for both ends
> of
>    this particular CoAP peer link.  Note that the CoAP peer will not
>    know about the MAX_PAYLOADS change until it is reconfigured.  As a
>    consequence of the two peers having different MAX_PAYLOADS values,
> a
>    peer may continue indicate that there are some missing payloads as
>    all of its MAX_PAYLOADS set may not have arrived.  How the two
> peer
>    values for MAX_PAYLOADS are synchronized is out of the scope.
> 
> I take it this is just thrown in here as an operational suggestion?
> It’s not specifying protocol, right? It seems a little misplaced, if
> so.

This is a guidance to adjust the max_payloads to avoid losses under normal conditions.  

> 
> 13. Section 10.1.3
> 
> (This comment relates to the aside in my DISCUSS. You may want to
> skip over it until we’ve resolved the DISCUSS, after which this may,
> or may not, be
> relevant.)
> 
> Why doesn’t the server request 1,9,10 in one go? Since its rxmt
> request is triggered by rx of 11, one would think it could infer 10
> had been lost.

Because only the missing blocks of the previous set are included and there may have been some packet arrival re-ordering for 10 and 11.

   On receipt of a payload
   from the new set of MAX_PAYLOADS payloads, the server SHOULD send a
   4.08 (Request Entity Incomplete) Response Code indicating any missing
   payloads from any previous MAX_PAYLOADS payloads.  Upon receipt of
   the 4.08 (Request Entity Incomplete) Response Code, the client SHOULD
   send the missing payloads before continuing to send the remainder of
   the MAX_PAYLOADS payloads and then go into another NON_TIMEOUT delay
   prior to sending the next set of payloads.

> 
> 14. Section 10.1.4 (also 10.3.3)
> 
> (This comment relates to the aside in my DISCUSS. You may want to
> skip over it until we’ve resolved the DISCUSS, after which this may,
> or may not, be
> relevant.)
> 
> Why doesn’t reception of a message with More=0 trigger the server to
> request retransmission of the missing block? Why does it have to wait
> for timeout?

This is to cover on-path reordering issues. It was decided not to introduce another timeout to be sure all the re-ordered packets had arrived. 

> 
> 15. Section 10.2.3
> 
> (This comment relates to my DISCUSS. You may want to skip over it
> until we’ve resolved the DISCUSS, after which this may, or may not,
> be relevant.)
> 
> Why doesn’t reception of QB2:10/0/1024 trigger the client to request
> retransmission? Why does it have to wait for timeout?

This is fixed as per a similar comment from Ben:

OLD:
       [[NON_TIMEOUT (server) delay expires]]
          |     [[Server sends next set of payloads]]
          |<---------+ NON 2.05 M:0xab T:0xf0 O:1236 ET=23 QB2:10/0/1024
          |   ...    |
       [[NON_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT (client) delay expires]]
          |     [[Client realizes blocks are missing and asks for the
          |       missing ones in one go]]
          +--------->| NON GET /path M:0x04 T:0xf3 QB2:1/0/1024\
          |          |                             QB2:9/0/1024
          |     X<---+ NON 2.05 M:0xac T:0xf3 ET=23 QB2:1/1/1024 

NEW:
       [[NON_TIMEOUT (server) delay expires]]
          |     [[Server sends next set of payloads]]
          |<---------+ NON 2.05 M:0xab T:0xf0 O:1236 ET=23 QB2:10/0/1024
          |     [[On seeing a payload from the next set of payloads, 
          |      Client realizes blocks are missing and asks for the
          |       missing ones in one go]]
          +--------->| NON GET /path M:0x04 T:0xf3 QB2:1/0/1024\
          |          |                             QB2:9/0/1024
          |     X<---+ NON 2.05 M:0xac T:0xf3 ET=23 QB2:1/1/1024


 Similarly
> reception of
> QB2:9/1/1024 later in the example.
> 

There has to be a delay here because of the potential of packet re-ordering arrival.

> 16. Section 10.2.4
> 
> Since MAX_PAYLOADS is 10, why does the example say “MAX_PAYLOADS has
> been reached” after payloads 2-9 have been retransmitted? That’s only
> 8 payloads.
> 

MAX_PAYLOADS is not a sliding window. It is a specific set of blocks, blocks #0 - #9 (payloads 1 to 10) in this case, then blocks #10 - #19 and so on. 

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