Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly bad idea
Eric Travis <eric.dot.travis@gmail.com> Wed, 23 July 2014 08:20 UTC
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Subject: Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly bad idea
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Lloyd, Why do you continue to expend so much time and effort on something you claim to be fundamentally broken? Wouldn't you make more productive use of that time working on a design for a Perpetual Motion Machine? >From more than a decade of observation, it strikes me that the substance of your "contributions" would be extremely valuable if only you would develop a more palatable communications style. If you made fixing problems (or on improving upon the existing state) the priority over receiving public credit for "being right", your contributions would likely be better received and advanced. Being recognized as right is *far* less useful than convincing others to do the right thing. While you might be comfortable on the receiving end of your contributions, clearly most aren't. Always assume your audience is thinner skinned than yourself. If you were kind enough to return a lost wallet, but insisted on including a detailed, brutally honest critique of the family photos inside - you shouldn't be surprised when you fail to receive a Thank You or even an acknowledgement for your effort. >From my recollection of the dtn-interest mailing list, the failure of your checksum draft(s) to advance was not because there was a lack of consensus regarding the technical details - you received very positive feedback, but because of your insistence on including unnecessary (unhelpful) editorial content in each revision. As this dragged on, the general concept of reliability became toxic. Not *entirely* your doing, but you could have have bent a little in order to advance the draft (and the case for reliability). Your prolonged frustration led you to choose a intentionally confrontational (insulting) presentation style for the "Bundle of Problems" paper of which you are so proud. The paper was understandably not well received in the DTNRG community. Things degraded from there... I'll note that while I often agree with the substance of your technical positions, your chosen presentation style (often) makes me want to disagree. Alienation is not a winning strategy. We met back in 2001 at a London meeting. I was favorably impressed by you - and remember other attendees sharing the opinion (including Adrian). You are certainly capable of effective contribution WHEN YOU WANT, but your default preference tends toward scorched earth... It's entertaining but counter-productive. Based on the historical impacts, I'd have to say that Vint's 2008 suggestion to you was indeed a good one. Whether or not the current suggestion that you not participate in a DTNWG is appropriate depends entirely on you... You might be the "smartest kid in the class", but unless you expend some effort on a charm offensive it won't matter in the least. Regards, Eric On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:21 PM, <l.wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > Vint, > > > not participating in the DTN effort was a suggestion you made when we > > discussed the Bundle Protocol while walking around the golf course at > > IETF Dublin in July 2008, after I raised concerns about the Bundle > > Protocol work being rushed and not being technically sufficient. > > > Since that conversation, we have done the first in-space tests of bundle > use > > from the UK-DMC satellite, we wrote the "A Bundle of Problems" paper that > > has belatedly been recognised as identifying problems with the Bundle > > Protocol... Those and other contributions would simply not have > > happened had I followed your suggestion then. > > > In hindsight, do you think that was a good suggestion? > > > Lloyd Wood > http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/dtn > ------------------------------ > *From:* Vint Cerf <vint@google.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, 19 July 2014 10:29 PM > *To:* Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) > *Cc:* dtn@ietf.org; dtn-interest; IAB IAB; IETF-Discussion list; IESG > *Subject:* Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly bad idea > > ok, you don't need to participate in the WG if it is formed, Lloyd. > > vint > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:28 PM, <l.wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > >> I'm not going to be attending the DTNWG BOF remotely, as it's >> at 2am my local time - but I'd just like to point out, as I said in >> >> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dtn/current/msg00026.html >> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dtn/current/msg00054.html >> >> that I think that having an IETF workgroup push the technically >> flawed Bundle Protocol through on standards track, after years >> of poor development and unfixed problems across two IRTF research >> groups, is a really terribly bad idea that does not benefit the IETF >> community, and does not benefit work on delay-tolerant networking >> or ad-hoc networking in general. >> >> So, I am not in favour of the proposed DTNWG being formed. >> >> Enjoy Toronto. >> >> Lloyd Wood >> http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/dtn >> _______________________________________________ >> dtn-interest mailing list >> dtn-interest@irtf.org >> https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/dtn-interest >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dtn-interest mailing list > dtn-interest@irtf.org > https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/dtn-interest > >
- [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly bad i… l.wood
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… Vint Cerf
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… Nabil Benamar
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… l.wood
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… Vint Cerf
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… Eric Travis
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… l.wood
- Re: [dtn-interest] DTNWG proposal is a terribly b… Tom Chaffee