Re: [Roll] Way forward for draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences

C Chauvenet <c.chauvenet@watteco.com> Wed, 16 May 2012 14:14 UTC

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From: C Chauvenet <c.chauvenet@watteco.com>
To: JP Vasseur <jpv@cisco.com>
Thread-Topic: [Roll] Way forward for draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences
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Subject: Re: [Roll] Way forward for draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences
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Hi, 

I definitely agree that implementation feedback is always good to know, so your experiences are welcomed.

I also think that problems investigations need a complete and exact view, so I would encourage you to put much more details about the scenario and the environment where you experimentations took place.
For instance, I would enjoy a "RPL Implementation Description" section in you draft listing the hardware your used, your RPL parameters, the RPL drafts and mechanisms implemented, your OS etc...
If I read a paper with orthogonal observations with the same level of details as in your draft, then how could I forge my opinion ?

Looking at this draft, it seems that it gathers lots of previous discussions that occurred during the past year on various mailing lists, and IETF meetings.

Does your experimentations takes care about these recommendations ?
If not, does your draft mention the propositions that have been made to address the problems you point out in your draft ?
I think it could be worth to leverage on these previous discussions.

Your draft is a list of Description and Observations.
Maybe you could add a "Resolution Proposal" section for each problem, gathering previous discussion and your own proposals ?
Identifying what is wrong in your implementation is a good first step, but the hardest part is to propose some corrections.

Best Regards,

Cédric Chauvenet.

Le 16 mai 2012 à 15:04, JP Vasseur a écrit :

> Dear Thomas,
> 
> On May 16, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Thomas Heide Clausen wrote:
> 
>> Dear JP and Michael,
>> 
>> Thank you for your mail.
>> 
>> On May 16, 2012, at 09:18 , JP Vasseur wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Thomas,
>>> 
>>> On May 11, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Thomas Heide Clausen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear JP, Michael, all
>>>> 
>>>> Upon JPs invitation, draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences was presented and discussed at the Paris meeting.
>>>> 
>>>> The authors consider the document complete and "done", and are looking to take it forward in the IETF 
>>>> process for publication as "Informational RFC" in the very near future. 
>>>> 
>>>> We would therefore like to ask the WG chairs, if the ROLL WG is willing to accept and progress this 
>>>> document towards publication?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your suggestion. So far we haven't see a lot of discussion/interest from the WG but your request is
>>> perfectly fair.
>> 
>> Thank you - I aim to be fair.
>> 
>>> So far there are no details on the scenarios and testing environments that led to the issues that 
>>> you reported, thus I would suggest you to first include them so that people interested could be able to reproduce
>>> it. Once the drat is updated, we'll be happy to pool the WG.
>>> 
>>> Does that make sense ?
>> 
>> Not really. Let me explain my disagreement.
>> 
>> We tried RPL (and, I note, several different independent implementations of RPL) in a number of different scenarios and deployments, and observed the behaviors exhibited - noting that what we observed across the different implementations, scenarios and deployments was fairly universal.
>> 
>> We then went back to the specification, to understand these behaviors in detail, and understand their universality as independent from a specific scenario or deployment or implementation - but rather, as artifacts of the RPL protocol design.
>> 
>> We therefore believe that _any_ deployment, scenario or testing environment of RPL needs to pay attention to the issues presented, and find a way of addressing them. The way of addressing these issues in a given deployment or scenario would be appropriate for an "applicability statement" for that deployment or scenario.
> 
> JP> Thanks for the clarification; that being said, for the WG to make sure that nothing is "scenario" dependent and the outcome could indeed apply to all scenarios,
> it might be worth being more explicit. For example, you pointed out to the MTU issue, to which I mentioned that 15.4g would bring a solution, so you may want to 
> explain that you did not use 15.4g and there are a number of such examples ….
> 
>> 
>> (For example, a deployment using only L2s which provides guaranteed bi-directional links  for L3 would address this by in the applicability statement stating "As all L2-links are guaranteed bi-directional, this addresses the issues raised in section 9 in draft-clausen-lln-rpl-experiences".)
>> 
>> Thus, we believe that it would actually be misleading (not to mention, unnecessarily verbose) to put the "details on the scenarios and testing environments" into this I-D.
>> 
>> Doing so would mislead the reader to believe that the issues presented only manifest themselves in those precise scenarios - which definitely isn't the case.
> 
> JP> see the previous comment and tell us what you think; we could provide other examples.
> 
> Note that we do not oppose to asking to the WG; we just request you first to add additional information to proceed forward.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> JP and Michael.
> 
> JP.
> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Thomas
>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> JP and Michael.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Thomas, Ulrich, Yuichi, Jiazi and Axel
>>> 
>> 
> 
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