Re: [Softwires] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-chen-softwire-4rd-u-comment-00.txt

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Maoke <[e-mail]> wrote:
> hi Behcet,
>
> 2012/4/10 Tina TSOU <[e-mail]>
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:12 AM, "Behcet Sarikaya" <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
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>> > Hi Maoke,
>> >
>> > Thank you for your efforts in technical details of one specific
>> > proposal on the table.
>> >
>> > However, I for one think that probably it is time to concentrate on
>> > commonalities rather than the differences. As Alain indicated, these
>> > proposals do have a lot of common points.
>> >
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> that proposal is basically of a response to people's call for "describing
> technical concerns in mind" about 4rd-U. commonality and difference is the
> two sides of the same coin. if we don't understand what makes them exactly
> different, we are also hard to understand how common they are. this document
> is purposed in sharing such an understanding and therefore it focuses only
> on the essential concerns -- the concerns regarding architecture and
> protocol semantics.
>
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>> > Why don't (whoever) write a draft putting together all the common
>> > points concentrating on CE to BR and abstracting out BIH, XLAT, etc.?
>> > Such a draft can be of great value at this point, I think.
>> That's MAP-D document.
>> >
>
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> yes. as Tina points out, MAP deployment draft that we are working on plays
> the role of clarifying the common deployment considerations with MAP series.
> thanks!
>

I would prefer calling a document that unifies both 4rd-u and MAP's 4rd.

This is what this whole Softwire work is aimed at, i.e. define 4rd protocol.

Regards,

Behcet