[gaia] draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments. Stephen Farrel's comment #1. DTN

Hi,

Any thoughts about the use of DTN in Alternative Networks? Any experiences, references or some news about DTN being used in some of them?

> > - 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)

Best regards,

Jose 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: gaia [mailto:gaia-bounces@irtf.org] En nombre de Matthew Ford
> Enviado el: lunes, 04 de abril de 2016 15:22
> Para: gaia <gaia@irtf.org>
> Asunto: [gaia] Fwd: [irsg] IRSG Poll: draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments
> 
> With Stephen’s permission, I’m sharing his comments on the alternative-network-
> deployments draft.
> 
> Mat
> 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
> > Subject: Re: [irsg] IRSG Poll:
> > draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments
> > Date: 18 March 2016 at 13:21:38 GMT-3
> > To: Matthew Ford <ford@isoc.org>, Internet Research Steering Group
> > <irsg@irtf.org>
> >
> >
> > - 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.
> >
> 
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