Re: [tsvwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13.txt

Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org> Mon, 08 March 2021 03:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13.txt
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Bob, responding to a couple points below.

On 3/7/21 5:54 PM, Bob Briscoe wrote:
>
>> 2) "L4S uses an Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
>>    scheme that is similar to the original (or 'Classic') ECN approach."
>>
>> Would it be clearer to state that it uses an ECN scheme similar to 
>> the scheme described in RFC 8257 DCTCP (which IMO is distinct from 
>> the original ECN approach)?
>
> [BB] This is probably nearly as true, but the purpose of this sentence 
> was to help readers who might already know the RFC3168 scheme. I think 
> that's likely to be a much larger set than those who know DCTCP. 
> (Think of all the training courses and Web pages that describe the IP 
> header, and the function of the fields).
>
> RFC3168 defines the codepoints and the valid transitions of the ECN 
> protocol. The L4S ECN protocol keeps all that, and the semantics of 
> the codepoints. The main difference is that ECT(1) is no longer 
> equivalent to ECT(0), although they still both have the meaning of 
> ECN-capable transport and unmarked.
>
> So I think that warrants the word "similar".

In that case, perhaps just call out the differences as follows?

s/is similar to the original (or 'Classic') ECN approach/differs from 
the original (or 'Classic') ECN approach in the following ways/

>>
>> 2) The goal of less than 1 ms average queuing delay probably should 
>> be qualified; e.g. something like "on networks not subject to 
>> multiple access delays above these thresholds"
>
> [BB] OK. How about "queuing delay... due to e2e congestion control"
> Meaning if no possible alteration to the behaviour of the e2e CC can 
> reduce a certain type of queuing delay (e.g. queuing for medium 
> access) it's not due to e2e CC.

OK.

>
>>
>> 4) s/prevent it from/prevent such queues from
>
> [BB] Don't agree here.
> There's been no mention yet of any queues that "such queues" could 
> refer back to.
>
> The full clause was:
> "...isolate existing Classic traffic from L4S traffic to prevent it 
> from degrading"
>
> The 'it' here means the existing Classic traffic. If this was unclear 
> I'd happily change it, but I think it's OK as it is, isn't it?

I made the comment because upon first read, I didn't know which traffic 
'it' referred to.  So perhaps change 'it' to 'the former'?

- Tom