Re: [ippm] Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-ippm-stamp-07: (with DISCUSS)

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Hi Barry,
thank you for your pointed question. Please find my explanation and the
proposed updated below under the GIM>> tag.

Regards,
Greg

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:53 AM Barry Leiba via Datatracker <[e-mail]>
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> I'm sure this will be easy to either explain to me or re-phrase:
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> Sections 4 and 6 both say something like "MUST be agreed by all users of
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> network".  What does that really mean?  How is it remotely possible to get
> agreement from all users of your network?  How is it remotely possible that
> they could understand what you're asking them to agree to?
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GIM>> Yes, looking at the bigger picture, at the Internet rather than only
at the domain where the test will be performed makes such condition
unattainable. Would s/network/network domain where the test is planned/  so
that it reads as:

... MUST be agreed by all users on the network domain where the test is
planned ...

make it clearer and the number of parties involved reasonable, practical?
As for what the could be the question users will be asked, I think that it
should verify whether the application that has the port number assigned is
active as the same number will be used as the destination port number in
the STAMP test.