Re: [Tsv-art] TSV-ART review of draft-ietf-forces-interfelfb

Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@mojatatu.com> Sat, 18 June 2016 14:03 UTC

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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:03:34 -0400
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Thanks Joe. I will make an update and post.

cheers,
jamal

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:

> Hi, Jamal,
>
> Focusing only on the portion needing continued feedback below.
>
> Joe
>
> On 6/17/2016 5:12 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>
> Hi Joe,
> Thanks for your review - responses below:
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> I've reviewed this draft as part of the TSV Area Review Team, paying
>> special attention to transport-related concerns. Please take these as
>> any other IETF last call comments.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> ---
>>
>> The document contains two different types of transport issues: its
>> relation to supporting transport traffic and the way it exchanges
>> information between the FEs.
>>
>> ...
>
>
>
>> The document uses Ethernet as a "transport", as stated in Sec 3.1.1. The
>> claim that this is "simpler" than using UDP would benefit from a few
>> sentences of substantiation, especially because Ethernet does not
>> support fragmentation, which has an impact on the solutions proposed in
>> Sec 5.1.1 (see below).
>>
>
> The reference point is the common deployment use cases; within a single
> rack or network owned by one admin who does all the setup.
> Any suggestion on wording you'd like to see?
>
> from:
>
>    o  The FEs are already interconnected using Ethernet.  We focus on
>       Ethernet because it is a very common setup as an FE interconnect.
>       While other higher transports (such as UDP over IP) or lower
>       transports could be defined to carry the data and metadata it is
>       simpler to use Ethernet (for the functional scope of a single
>       distributed device already interconnected with ethernet).
>
> To:
>
>    o  The FEs are already interconnected using Ethernet.  We focus on
>       Ethernet because it is a very common setup as an FE interconnect.
>       Other higher transports (such as UDP over IP) or lower
>       transports could be defined to carry the data and metadata, but
>       these cases are not addressed in this document.
>
> ---
>