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Re: [ncrg] Relevance for IPv4 address sharing mechanisms

Scott Brim <swb@internet2.edu> Wed, 07 November 2012 18:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ncrg] Relevance for IPv4 address sharing mechanisms
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On 11/06/12 16:54, Michael Behringer (mbehring) allegedly wrote:
> The NCRG should *specifically* contribute to IETF activities, and try
> to analyse the complexity in protocols. It seems to me that protocol
> complexity is significantly simpler to figure out than the complexity
> of a real network, with all its dependencies on hardware, human
> operators, etc. I'm thinking here of the complexity of the specs
> only, ignoring the implementation at this point.
> 
> So please share your thoughts here on how we could analyse the
> complexity of those protocols!

... before the fact.  That is: Analyzing the output of WGs when they are
finished, doesn't help much.  They need tools that predict and model.
Ideally, the NCRG should give protocol designers a clear understanding
of principles and heuristics that they can put to practical use in IETF
WGs.  These are more detailed and applied than just giving them general
principles of complexity theory.

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