[core] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-core-new-block-11: (with COMMENT)
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Subject: [core] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-core-new-block-11: (with COMMENT)
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Robert Wilton has entered the following ballot position for draft-ietf-core-new-block-11: No Objection When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this introductory paragraph, however.) Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html for more information about DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-new-block/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I support Lars's discuss. I am conflicted with how to ballot on this document, and I am also considering whether to abstain instead. I appreciate the utility and problem that this is trying to address, but I'm concerned that this is pushing CoAP outside the IOT domain, and it seems to be very focused on solving a specific DOTs problem, and seems to make CoAP creep towards TCP. I also note that the following paragraph seems to suggest that what is being done here is somewhat experimental in nature and could even be replaced in future. Hence I wonder whether publishing as an experimental RFC might be an alternative, although that does not really answer the question as to whether it is right to extend CoAP's block handling in this way. 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. It is hoped that the experience gained with this mechanism can feed future extensions of the block-wise mechanism that will both be generally applicable and serve this particular use case. Regards, Rob
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