RE: [L2CP] Advantages of L2CP (was: Revised WG Charter Draft)

["Sanjay Wadhwa" <[e-mail]>]

Peter
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Busschbach, Peter B (Peter) [mailto:[e-mail]]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:51 AM
>To: 'Wojciech Dec (wdec)'; [e-mail]
>Subject: [L2CP] Advantages of L2CP (was: Revised WG Charter Draft)
>
>
>Hi Woj,
>
>To address the second half of our email exchange:
>
>I did notice the sentence that addressed Dave's concern. 
>However, my point was that the charter claims that L2CP will 
>have a specific benefit ("avoiding complex cross-organization 
>interactions"), while it is far from clear that in this 
>respect L2CP is any better than other solutions.

[Sanjay] All that the charter is saying is that L2C work will undertake
use-cases that aim to simplify service management by avoiding complex 
cross-organization interactions. It is a nobel goal that L2C is striving
to achieve.. What is wrong with that ? This is irrespective of wether
other solutions can provide this or not. 
So, as an example, charter for a new dynamic routing protocol might say
that it will strive to achieve fast network-wide convergence (which is a
clear benefit over static routing). But, obviously it is ok for multiple
dynamic routing protocols to work towards this goal and have this
explicitly stated in their charter. 

-Sanjay


>I believe that the charter should avoid stating benefits that 
>are debatable and therefore suggest that the text that I 
>quoted in my first email be deleted from the charter.
>
>Peter
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wojciech Dec (wdec) [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:34 AM
>> To: Busschbach, Peter B (Peter); [e-mail]
>> Subject: RE: [L2CP] Re: Revised WG Charter Draft
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> To address 1) we have put in the following statement in the charter
>> which you may have not noticed.
>> 
>> "The protocol design will not preclude other uses of L2CP." 
>> 
>> WRT 2) we do not lay any claims to how different operators structure
>> their data bases, and some are probably better at doing it 
>> than others.
>> However it does seem to be a fairly common problem that the 
>> info related
>> to a single subscriber's network service needs to be farmed 
>> out and fed
>> into numerous custom built manager systems besides also the 
>Radius DB.
>> The idea is to allow a mechanism, through the use of L2CP, 
>to have the
>> Access node be provided with such information as and when 
>> needed by the
>> NAS which in turn accesses a common repository like a Radius DB. 
>> Dave's statement was, I believe, in relation to different 
>> subject; that
>> of a wholesale-retail operation, where indeed the 
>relationship is more
>> complex. However we do plan on addressing this as evidenced by the
>> statement in the charter:
>> "L2CP will address security aspects of the control protocol, 
>including
>> the trust model between NAS nodes and access nodes."
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Woj.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Busschbach, Peter B (Peter) [mailto:[e-mail]] 
>> Sent: 04 April 2006 21:23
>> To: '[e-mail]'
>> Subject: [L2CP] Re: Revised WG Charter Draft
>> 
>> I have two comments on the revised charter.
>> 
>> 1)	At the end of the BOF, Mark Townsley limited the scope of the
>> working group. Unfortunately, this is not captured very 
>clearly in the
>> meeting minutes. The critical sentence in the meeting minutes is "DSL
>> but good engineers ...". I.e. the focus of the WG is to solve a
>> particular issue in DSL access networks, but as good 
>> engineers we should
>> not preclude the use of the protocol for other applications.
>> 
>> I don't see the limited scope reflected in the new charter.
>> 
>> 2)	Under "Line Configuration". the charter says:
>> 
>> > L2CP is intended to simplify the OSS infrastructure for service 
>> > management, allowing subscriber-related service data to be 
>> maintained 
>> > in fewer repositories (e.g. RADIUS server back-end database) while 
>> > avoiding complex cross-organization interactions.
>> 
>> I don't understand how L2CP leads to fewer Radius server 
>back end data
>> bases. I also don't understand how L2CP avoids cross-organizational
>> interactions. There seems to be an assumption that it is ok 
>> for L2CP to
>> cross organizational boundaries but not for other protocols. I don't
>> think that is correct. At the BOF, Dave Allan pointed out  
>> that this is
>> one of the more difficult problems to solve. Therefore, I 
>believe that
>> this text should be removed from the charter.
>> 
>> Peter 
>> 
>> 
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