Re: [dtn-interest] New bundle internet draft and paper comparing protocols for reliability errored delivery.

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Lloyd Wood wrote:

> Why isn't LTP being standardised...<elsewhere>

Lloyd,

The above is wrong. LTP, and presumably Saratoga, are being put
forward as experimental RFCs. That is very different from being
on the standards-track. Maybe you should re-read some of the IRTF
and IETF process documents?

IMO, as-is, neither protocol would pass muster for the standards
track.

For LTP, arguably the security extensions would have to be made
mandatory to implement. I could well imagine that the red/green
mechanism might change (e.g. to allow red segments to be
interspersed anywhere in the block).

For Saratoga, the use of MD5 would be a killer as would the lack
of any security primitives.

Both would fall over the lack of key management.

Both would have to have a bunch of work done on fairness and
all the other things that people care about for protocols that
could be in widespread use over the Internet.

I honestly don't see any value in a p*&&ing competition here,
other than to raise the temperature at DTNRG meetings which
IMO provides *very* limited amusement,

S.