Re: [Dime] Benoit Claise's No Objection on draft-ietf-dime-drmp-05: (with COMMENT)

"Ben Campbell" <ben@nostrum.com> Wed, 04 May 2016 17:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dime] Benoit Claise's No Objection on draft-ietf-dime-drmp-05: (with COMMENT)
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I will jump in on one point, since this is related to the discussion on 
whether nodes need a common approach to selecting/interpreting priority 
values:

On 4 May 2016, at 12:02, Benoit Claise wrote:

>
> -
>
>  1.  Request sender - The sender of a request, be it a Diameter Client
>        or a Diameter Server, determines the relative priority of the
>        request and includes that priority information in the request.
>
> Question: what is the risk of DMRP ending up as the DSCP, i.e.
> Every end point changes the value to best service, and in the end, 
> it's
> useless, and uniquely set by the operator.

I think there's a trusted network assumption here, which would include 
an assumption that trusted clients do not intentionally game the system. 
(in contrast with _accidentally_ gaming the system by using a different 
scheme to set priority values.)

However, I think that this sort of assumption should be explicitly 
mentioned. IIRC, DOIC included some guidance about crossing trust 
boundaries; perhaps DRMP should do the same.

(And I guess that does make it a bit like DSCP ;-)  )

Ben.