Re: [Roll] [dhcwg] MPL config draft (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-roll-mpl-parameter-configuration-01.txt)

"Bernie Volz (volz)" <volz@cisco.com> Tue, 08 July 2014 20:59 UTC

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From: "Bernie Volz (volz)" <volz@cisco.com>
To: Yusuke DOI <yusuke.doi@toshiba.co.jp>, Andre Kostur <akostur@incognito.com>
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Subject: Re: [Roll] [dhcwg] MPL config draft (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-roll-mpl-parameter-configuration-01.txt)
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Hi:

I don't have a great answer for you as I have no idea what the typical usages are likely to be. If there are likely to be many instances and the desire to configure most of the values (and for multiple domains), then one single option for each domain with all of the values is certainly a better idea.

I think the main points here are to:
- avoid compressing the data / developing new data types and use more standard elements (i.e., 16 or 32-bit integers) - see RFC 7227.
- group things logically (i.e., alignment of the data, while making the picture easier to draw, is not a requirement [of course we assume it is octet (byte) aligned]).

There are many ways to format this data, each with pros and cons. Making those tradeoffs is something I am not in a good position to help you with.

- Bernie

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From: Yusuke DOI [mailto:yusuke.doi@toshiba.co.jp] 
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To: Bernie Volz (volz); Andre Kostur
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] MPL config draft (Re: [Roll] I-D Action: draft-ietf-roll-mpl-parameter-configuration-01.txt)

Hi Bernie, Thank you for comments,

(2014-07-08 2:19), Bernie Volz (volz) wrote:
> Not sure I'd suggest adding 10 (or 11) options for this?
>
> But I certainly would suggest, as Andre did, much simpler values - 
> flags and "compressed" data just make for much more complex and error 
> prone processing on both client and server. A structure which would 
> have all these values but in a much more standard set of data formats 
> would be better.

-2 for compressed data. I'd like to make 'uncompressed' version and check if it's acceptable for roll-ish network.

> Perhaps there is a middle grown to have groups of values (i.e., have
> 3-4 options)? I'm really not that familiar with MPL, but perhaps there 
> are some logical groupings that make sense (seems that there are data 
> and control messages would could be one logical separation).

Ah, so your suggestion is to have (for example) three options?:

1) MPL Base configuration
    (P, SE_LIFETIME, {MPL Domain})
2) MPL Control channel configuration
    (C_K, C_MIN, C_MAX, C_T_EXP, {MPL Domain})
3) MPL Data channel configuration
    (D_K, D_MIN, D_MAX, D_T_EXI, {MPL Domain})

For me, duplication of MPL domain (128bit address x 3) seems to be wasteful.

> Might also be nice in the Abstract to define MPL?

Thanks, I'll add a definition.

Yusuke