[gaia] Fwd: [irsg] IRSG Poll: draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments

[Matthew Ford <[e-mail]>]

With Stephen’s permission, I’m sharing his comments on the alternative-network-deployments draft.

Mat

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: [irsg] IRSG Poll: draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments
> Date: 18 March 2016 at 13:21:38 GMT-3
> To: Matthew Ford <[e-mail]>, Internet Research Steering Group <[e-mail]>
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> - 5.5: you don't mention DTN, there have been a number DTN based
> testbeds, but probably none that reached any scale (so you might
> be right to leave those out)
> 
> - 7.2 doesn't mention PEPs, might be worth including as
> satellite was mentioned earlier (as they break stuff when
> present;-)
> 
> - 7.3 omits email, which is odd and you only mention the web in
> the context of proxies which is maybe even more odd; and NTP is
> not really an "intranet" service, nor is IRC. Maybe this section
> could do with some more work?
> 
> Missing characteristics - I didn't see much or any consideration
> of the stuff below and would have thought that these issues were
> important in characterising alternative networks:
> 
> - Reliability: I only see one instance of the string "reliab"
> which is odd - wouldn't the reliability of these networks be a
> major consideration? I mean the overall uptime mostly, and not
> the packet loss rate.
> 
> - Latency: I also see only one mention of latency which is also
> surprising - for some of these networks I assume that e.g. not
> being fast enough to use FB, gmail or similar is a barrier. I'd
> have thought that'd be an interesting characteristic too.
> 
> - Power: whether the nodes have reliable power or not would
> also seem to be an interesting way to characterise 'em.
>