Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)

"Templin (US), Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> Tue, 03 September 2019 21:02 UTC

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From: "Templin (US), Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
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Fernando,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fgont@si6networks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 1:49 PM
> To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>; Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
> Cc: Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>; int-area@ietf.org; IESG <iesg@ietf.org>; Joel Halpern
> <joel.halpern@ericsson.com>; draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile@ietf.org; intarea-chairs@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
> 
> On 3/9/19 23:33, Tom Herbert wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > I agree with Fred. Note, the very first line of the introduction:
> >
> > "Operational experience [Kent] [Huston] [RFC7872] reveals that IP
> > fragmentation introduces fragility to Internet communication".
> >
> > This attempts to frame fragmentation as being generally fragile with
> > supporting references. However, there was much discussion on the list
> > about operational experience that demonstrates fragmentation is not
> > fragile.
> 
> Discussion is not measurements. Do you have measurements that suggest
> otherwise?
> 
> We did separate measurements, with different methodologies, and they
> suggest the same thing. You can discuss as much as you want. But that
> will not make fragmentation work.
> 
> 
> 
> > In particular, we know that fragmentation with tunnels is
> > productively deployed and has been for quite some time. So that is the
> > counter argument to the general statement that fragmentation is
> > fragile. With the text about tunneling included in the introduction I
> > believe that was sufficient balance of the arguments, but without the
> > text the reader could be led to believe that fragmentation is fragile
> > for everyone all the time which is simply not true and would be
> > misleading.
> 
> "fragile" means that it fails in an uncceptably large number of cases.
> ~30 failure rate is not acceptable. ~20% isn't, either.

What if we fragment the payload packet instead of the delivery packet?
Wouldn't that give a 0% failure rate?

Fred

> > But the "problem" of fragmentation is in intermediate devices that
> > don't properly handle it as the draft highlights. So it seems like
> > part of addressing the problem should also be to fix the problem! That
> > is implementations should be fixed to deal with fragmentation.
> 
> The same logic would solve the problem of widespread famine, and others.
> I don't think that logic has solved any real problems in the real world.
> 
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