Re: [homenet] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS)

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> Wed, 18 November 2015 16:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS)
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> There is a reason why IETF standards are harder than ad hoc protocols: we
> specify what's needed to solve the problem generally and interoperably,

A lot of the MUST in HNCP are not about interoperability, they are about
mandating the features that we want Homenet routers that we have.  In
other words, HNCP does not distinguish between "MUST or else you won't
interoperate" and "MUST because we are Homenet and we tell you so".

> If someone's argument for why not to adopt HNCP is "it's too hard," then
> they are discounting the technical debt that they accumulate when they do
> a one-off ad hoc protocol.

That's very well put, and exactly what I'm trying to explain to the
community.  Please help me do that rather than adding to the perception
that HNCP contains dozens of random, arbitrary requirements.

> There is a reason why the IETF seems slow.

You're changing the subject, Ted.  Nobody mentioned timeliness.

I'm arguing against making strong requirements that will be ignored by any
sensible implementer.  "Hey, you don't need to deploy that, but you still
MUST carry the dead code in your implementation".

How much more silly can one get?

-- Juliusz