Re: [tcmtf] BoF feedback

FWIW, I'd like to see how/whether this can be cast as an extension to SEAL.

It'd be useful not to have to reinvent the many wheel-like parts of this 
that could leverage existing tunneling capabilities.

Joe

On 8/2/2013 3:34 AM, Luigi Iannone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was thinking a little bit about the turn the BoF took yesterday, going a bit off topic IMHO.
>
> At a certain point people were going to the mic to explain yet another scenario where TCMTF would not work or is not useful.
>
> It is obvious to me that such scenarios exist, but  the goal of TCMTF is not to provide something that will be applied to all packets under a certain size.
>
> It is also obvious to me that scenarios where TCMTF is beneficial exist as well. Goal of TCMTF should be to provide the right mechanism for those scenarios.
>
> A key point to discuss in TCMTF is how we identify and select the flow we want to be multiplexed on a single compressed tunnel.
>
> All of this to say that we should not focus or scenarios where TCMTF doesn't help but rather to answer the following question:
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> Are there scenarios and use cases where TCMTF provides benefits?
>
> The answer IMHO is YES so some work should be done.
>
> Just let me add that,  before thinking how to encapsulate we should answer: How do we select the flows we want to encamp?
>
> So that we are sure that we do not touch traffic that will suffer because of TCMTF.
>
> Just my thoughts after the BoF.
>
> ciao
>
> Luigi
>
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