Re: [tcpm] tcp-security: Request for feedback on the outline of the document

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

Hello, Toby,

Comments in-line...

> I think there needs to be some form of hum relating to this. There seems
> to be a relatively small number of people expressing relatively strong
> opinions on this document that are clearly incompatible. One key thing,
> regardless of how we actually decide to split the work, Fernando's
> current ToC is too long... 3 pages of ToC is excessive. 

For the most part it's a three-page ToC because it's a 130+ page
document. So no matter how the sections are reorganized, I don't think
the ToC will get much shorter.....


> I think the
> sections aren't grouped at a high enough level (e.g. connection
> establishment and tear-down could be in one section on connection
> management, 

I have no problem with this. Probably the only drawback is that the
corresponding sections will have a depth of four sections (i.e. one more
level). But that shouldn't be a problem. Please let me know if you still
feel this would improve the document, and I'll apply this change.



> buffer management and re-assembly could probably be grouped
> into memory management, etc). 

If you are referring to Section 7 and Section 8, one might argue that
those are two different issues. Buffer management is memory management.
Segment reassembly algorithm (Section 8) is about e.g., what you do if
you get segments that overlap (which does not really have anything to do
with how you manage memory). Nevertheless, if you have any specific
proposal on how to merge these two sections, please let me know.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
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Fernando Gont
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