Re: Network Energy Management

[Hesham ElBakoury <[e-mail]>]

Hi Joel,
Why IETF does not have the skill set to define extensions to OSPF to be
more energy efficient ? Example of such extensions is described in this
recent paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.00035.

Thanks
Hesham

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022, 4:22 PM Joel Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I can't speak for Fred, but I don't think we as a community even know what
> "energy efficient protocol" means.  Much less how that trades off against
> all the other aspects of protocol design.
>
> We do consider message size and frequency when we design protocols.  We
> consider those aspects along with lots of others.  if that is "designing
> energy efficient protocols" then we already do so.  On the other hand,
> design for issues such as to to partially wake up a sleeping device is
> generally outside our remit and skill set.  And is meaningless for many of
> our devices.
>
> Yours,
>
> Joel
> On 8/5/2022 7:18 PM, Hesham ElBakoury wrote:
>
> Hi Fred,
> Do you think  IETF engineers have the skill sets to design energy
> efficient protocols or enhance existing ones to be more energy efficient ?
>
> Thanks,
> Hesham
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022, 1:22 PM Fred Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Echoing a previous post, I’m not sure sustainability is part of our skill
>> set. If we were to try to forcibly add it, I suspect we’d get the same
>> level of response security originally got: “sustainability is not specified
>> in this document”.
>>
>> Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways...
>>
>> > On Aug 5, 2022, at 2:26 AM, Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Perhaps it is time for a new mandatory section in RFCs: sustainability?
>>
>>