Re: [rrg] RRG to hibernation

"Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Mon, 12 November 2012 02:48 UTC

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I can well believe we can, for a reasonable value of all, update all 
host TCP and UDP engines with a small, migratable, change.
We can't change all host applications.
And we can not make a change that does not interoperate with existing hosts.

Yours,
Joel

On 11/11/2012 9:13 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
>>      > It does require a new suite of transport protocols
>>      > ...
>>      > the odds of ever reaching deployment on an approach which requires
> us
>>      > to abandon TCP and UDP are not good?
>>
>> That's infeasible; you can't require changing all hosts. You need to see
> if you can
>> come up with some approach that avoids that.
>>
>> (E.g. if we have location-identity separatation deployed, you could hide
> the new
>> locators from the hosts.)
>
> I think that we are giving up too early on the feasibility of updating all
> hosts. Indeed, any substantial change in routing and addressing would most
> probably end up changing all hosts, or at least most of them. I also think
> that a research group should not necessarily shy away from investigations
> that affect all hosts. If research comes out with a brilliant shiny star on
> the horizon, then engineering might follow. If the best we can do is hack on
> the edges of current solutions, then engineering groups can definitely do
> that, no need for a research group.
>
> -- Christian Huitema
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