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

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Mon, 09 September 2019 00:15 UTC

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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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> On Sep 8, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> Wouldn't that require the middle box to become an architectural element?
>> 
>> Yes, but not just “an” (one):
>> 
>> Touch, J: Middlebox Models Compatible with the Internet. USC/ISI (ISI-TR-711), 2016. (Type: Technical Report | Links | BibTeX)
>> 
>>  * https://www.strayalpha.com/pubs/isi-tr-711.pdf <https://www.strayalpha.com/pubs/isi-tr-711.pdf>
> 
> I'll take the liberty of pointing out that we've known for many years that
> there are multiple types of middleboxes and they have multiple facets:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3234 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3234>

Facets are just properties. That doc makes no attempt to describe them as architectural roles.

> 
> So far, we haven't added them to any formal architectural description of
> the Internet, probably because we don't have one.

RFC1122, RFC1123, RFC1812 as standards.

I (and IMO those RFCs) disagree with the position you took in RFC1958, FWIW.

Joe

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