Subject: Re: [Anima] I-D Action: draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-02.txt

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:52:55 +1300

Here's an update of the protocol proposal. There are a lot of changes,
summarised as:

*   Tuned requirements to clarify scope,
*   Clarified relationship between types of objective,
*   Clarified that objectives may be simple values or complex data
    structures,
*   Improved description of objective options,
*   Added loop-avoidance mechanisms (loop count and default timeout,
    limitations on discovery relaying and on unsolicited responses),
*   Allow multiple discovery objectives in one response,
*   Provided for missing or multiple discovery responses,
*   Indicated how modes such as "dry run" should be supported,
*   Minor editorial and technical corrections and clarifications,
*   Reorganized future work list.

It's a long document but we really do hope people can review it
before Dallas, so that we can have a substantive discussion
there.

N.B. My co-author Bing is on vacation but his most recent comments,
and Michael's, are supposed to be covered by this version.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 20/02/2015 14:41, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> 
> 
>         Title           : A Generic Discovery and Negotiation Protocol for Autonomic Networking
>         Authors         : Brian Carpenter
>                           Bing Liu
> 	Filename        : draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-02.txt
> 	Pages           : 46
> 	Date            : 2015-02-19
> 
> Abstract:
>    This document establishes requirements for a protocol that enables
>    intelligent devices to dynamically discover peer devices, to
>    synchronize state with them, and to negotiate parameter settings
>    mutually with them.  The document then defines a general protocol for
>    discovery, synchronization and negotiation, while the technical
>    objectives for specific scenarios are to be described in separate
>    documents.  An Appendix briefly discusses existing protocols with
>    comparable features.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol/
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-02
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-02
> 
> 
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