Re: [Mcast-wifi] [mboned] working group draft related to the topic of interest for this discussion group

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Sat, 11 August 2018 20:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Mcast-wifi] [mboned] working group draft related to the topic of interest for this discussion group
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I strongly recommend using the hyphenated for of wi-fi (or Wi-Fi).
That is the most accepted form.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Holland, Jake
<jholland=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Thanks Charlie and Mike, I think this document is important and valuable and
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> I'm glad to see the progress.
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> I've read through the -01 version, and I have a few comments.
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> High-level general comments:
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> 1. IETF's conference WLANs
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> I'll +1 Joel's comment that several places are strangely specific to the
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> wifi networks at IETF conferences.
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> Although some of the mentions have useful observations, I think it's
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> probably at best confusing to readers who haven't attended the conferences
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> in person when the context wasn't explained, like in section 5.1 under NAT
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> and Stateful firewalls.
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> Is there a good way to rephrase the explanations to refer to something like
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> a more generic "WLAN for a conference with ~3k STAs"?
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> And if the IETF is unusual in its commitment to the end-to-end principle in
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> practice (as I think is the case), I would say it's useful to talk about
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> pros and cons and common practice without apologizing for what IETF does at
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> its conferences, regardless of pitchforks.
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> 2. Spelling and definition of "wifi"
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> I don't have a strong position here, but will this eventually get kicked
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> back to replace uses of "wifi" with "Wi-Fi" or "IEEE 802.11 WLAN" or
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> something?  If "wifi" is clear and uncontroversial, I have no objection to
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> it, I just wanted to call attention to it as a point that might get
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> objections at some point, and ask if it'll need changing?
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> Regardless, I'll suggest (maybe in the definitions section?) describing or
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> providing a reference to the set of specifications this document is
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> referencing with the term "wifi" (or "Wi-Fi", if that turns out to be the
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> preferred language).
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> Editorial:
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> 1. (Abstract)
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> I think this sentence could be dropped entirely, it's sort of implicit in
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> having it eventually turn into an RFC:
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>                       IETF multicast experts have been
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>    meeting together to discuss these issues and provide IEEE updates.
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>    The mboned working group is chartered to receive regular reports on
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>    the current state of the deployment of multicast technology, create
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>    "practice and experience" documents that capture the experience of
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>    those who have deployed and are deploying various multicast
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>    technologies, and provide feedback to other relevant working groups.
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> 2. (Abstract, nit)
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> chioces -> choices
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> 3. (section 1, nit)
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> enhamcements -> enhancements
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> 4. (section 1, nit)
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> "neighborhood discovery" -> "neighbor discovery" (I think?)
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> 5. (section 1)
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> I think the list of environments with multicast video streaming should
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> include homes. This use case is becoming more common, I believe.
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> I'll offer some language here, but feel free to wordsmith to your own taste.
> I
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> Just would like to see home video services included:
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> OLD:
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>    more applications, such as push to talk in hospitals, video in
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>    enterprises and lectures in Universities, are streaming over wifi.
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>    Many types of end devices are increasingly using wifi for their
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>    connectivity.
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> NEW:
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>    more applications, such as push to talk in hospitals, or video in
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>    enterprises, universities, and homes, are sending multicast IP to end
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>    user devices, which are increasingly using wifi for their connectivity.
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> 5.a. (section 1)
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> Is it worth adding here use cases that are considered probably useful, but
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> not currently done with multicast over wifi, in part because of these
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> concerns? (e.g. apps providing instant replays in a stadium IIUC currently
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> use unicast, but could theoretically share a lot of bandwidth)
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> 6. (section 1, nit)
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> period ends sentence early.
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> OLD:
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>    issues created by multicast traffic.  as described in Section 5.
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> NEW (suggested):
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>    issues created by multicast traffic, as described in Section 5.
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> 7. (section 1)
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> Is the 2nd to last paragraph intended to be part of the final document, or
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> as a note to contributors or something?
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> 8. (section 2)
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> A few other terms might be appropriate here that I noticed later:
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> ACK - the 802.11 layer 2 acknowledgement
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> PER - packet error rate
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> 9. (section 3 title, nit)
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> mulitcast -> multicast
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> 10. (section 3.1.2)
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> I think one of the "wired" in the first sentence should be "wifi" or
> "wireless":
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>    ... multicast over wired versus multicast over
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>    wired is that...
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> 11. (section 3.1.2, paragraph 2 nit)
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> "an Access Points" -> "an Access Point"
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> 12. (section 3.1.2, paragraph 3)
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> I'm slightly confused by "lowest common denominator rate" -- I think that's
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> the slowest rate of all the connected devices, or the minimum configured
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> rate in the AP, is that correct?
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> Also, the different sentences seem to refer to this value both as the "basic
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> rate" and the "base data rate"; are those interchangeable, and are they
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> normative? Sorry, I haven't read all the relevant 802.11 specs, and I'm not
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> sure offhand if those have different meanings or not.  (A “as defined in
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> section XX of 802.YY” might be useful here, if that exists?)
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> 13. (section 3.1.3)
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> I think the term "client" was not defined, but it looks like it's used
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> interchangeably with "STA", is that correct?  Should it be either defined or
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> changed to STA?  I'm not completely sure whether any technical distinction
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> is intended.
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> 14. (section 3.2.1)
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> I think ARP is not an IPv4 protocol. Maybe "IPv4 protocols" -> "protocols
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> commonly used in IPv4 networks"?  (Also, I thought it uses broadcast but not
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> multicast--is there a common multicast case, or should this say "multicast
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> or broadcast"?)
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> 15. (section 3.2.1)
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> I think UPnP might be a good inclusion here.
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> 16. (section 3.2.1)
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> I think Bonjour is the same as mDNS, right?
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> Also: I'm a little uncomfortable with the Apple sentences here, though I
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> think the information is valuable. Maybe it could be moved and restated as a
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> mitigation for conference/enterprise networks? Something like removing the
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> Bonjour sentences here and adding something like this under section 5
> (though I’m
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> not sure it fits with 5.1, maybe as part of a “5.2 Mitigating spurious
> discovery
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> messages” or something?):
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> "
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> suppress or block mDNS messages
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>     In networks that must support hundreds of STAs, operators have observed
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>     network degradation due to many devices simultaneously registering with
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>     mDNS (for example, with Apple's Bonjour service). In a network with many
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>     clients, it is recommended to ensure that mDNS packets designed to
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>     discover services in smaller home networks be constrained to avoid
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>     disrupting other traffic.
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> "
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> (In fact, I suspect this could be generalized further--what happens if a
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> UPnP service becomes popular on laptops or phones?)
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> 17. (section 4)
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> Would it be useful to include a section for AMT? I think I could suggest
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> a couple of paragraphs if you think it would be a useful addition.
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> I think it's in the same category as DMS and multicast-to-unicast, and
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> perhaps the 3 should be grouped into a common section together, since they
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> share some characteristics that could share a description (and maybe a
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> note about applicability for home networks, and scaling considerations in
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> networks with many STAs subscribed to traffic).
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> I'm out of time for more detailed comments right now and I wanted to send
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> out what I've got, but please do not be surprised if I add some further
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> comments at some point unrelated to what I’ve got so far.
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> I'm looking forward to the next revision, I think this is a useful document,
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> and I'm glad to see it moving forward.
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> Thanks for working on it, and let me know if there's anything you'd like me
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> to clarify.
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> Kind regards,
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> Jake
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