Re: The IETF duty for Carbon emissions, energy use &ct.

On 15-okt-2007, at 18:28, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

> I think that whole conversation is missing the point. While one  
> conference with one and a half thousand participants has a  
> significant carbon footprint the more significant issue is the net  
> impact of Internet technology. We can do far more by enabling  
> changes in the behavior of the billion plus Internet users than our  
> own use.
>

Good point. So let's see if we can raise the average packet size used  
on the internet. If the router and switch vendors build their  
equipment such that they mostly use energy when actually doing stuff  
(such as routing table lookups) a reduction in the number of packets  
for the same amount of data would reduce the amount of power used to  
perform the data transfer.

A lot of equipment out there is already capable of using packets  
larger than 1500 bytes but the protocols are too limited to use this  
capability where it exists in a manageable way.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi-mtu-01.txt

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