Re: [Dots] Re Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-nishizuka-dots-inter-domain-mechanism-00.txt

["Roland Dobbins" <[e-mail]>]

On 11 Mar 2016, at 12:41, Xialiang (Frank) wrote:

> [Frank]: I mean both. I hope we can include this part of work in DOTS 
> WG.

We can refer to it in deployment examples, but not prescribe it.

> [Frank]: Good question. In general, one ISP can have multiple DOTS 
> systems to be responsible for its multiple domains respectively. It 
> can relieve the traffic pressure to one DOTS system in the ISP 
> network, and provide the optimized near-source mitigation in certain 
> level. I also think different deployment ways as you mentioned above 
> can work in various occasions. 1:1 coupling of server/client in the 
> orchestrator is now a simple model but is enough for most occasions. I 
> think the orchestrator should be an additional element for the DOTS 
> architecture.

Once again, this is something to which we can refer in deployment 
models, but not prescribe.

The purpose of this WG is to design a communications protocol that will 
be useful in most any DDoS mitigation scenario, not to prescribe 
elements beyond those required for the communications protocol itself to 
function (e.g., client, relay, server).

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Roland Dobbins <[e-mail]>