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Re: [PANRG] On the new text on ECN: draft-irtf-panrg-what-not-to-do-16

Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Thu, 11 March 2021 16:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [PANRG] On the new text on ECN: draft-irtf-panrg-what-not-to-do-16
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Resend: On 11/03/2021 15:06, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
> HI,
>
> Two observations on ECN in what may have been learned?
>
> * I think the "one chance" is per one /Generation/ of equipment for 
> hardware, possibly less time for software updates - but hard to 
> eliminate deployed critical bugs completely.
>
> * "Measure widely before, but important also gently test during 
> initial deployment", to avoid the pain when there are issues and 
> therefore to provide a chance to refine the design if there is a 
> problem, and reduce the pain of trying.
>
> I like the additional thought from Eric (in the RG meeting) on 
> mitigating user pain by using fallback techniques, so they do not 
> share your pain when something happens to go wong.
>
> ————
>
> Is this a typo?: /Cannot be recovered at TCP layer/
> - it seems like a partial sentence, does need a /This.../
>
> Gorry
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