Re: Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-bmwg-traffic-management-04: (with COMMENT)

Hi Kathleen, thanks for forwarding the SECDIR comment from Sean,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Moriarty [mailto:[email protected]]
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> Kathleen Moriarty has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-bmwg-traffic-management-04: No Objection
> 
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> COMMENT:
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> Thanks for your work on this draft.  I just have one question that was
> raised in the SecDir review:
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> Was there any thought to how the tcpinc efforts might affect the ability
> to gather measurements?
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/secdir/current/msg05726.html
> 
> It doesn't have an impact on this draft yet, but could in the future.
> 

[ACM] 
It's fair to say that tcpinc wasn't in existence for most of this draft's development,
so the discussion didn't happen, but it's certainly possible now.

For most (all?) of the traffic management systems considered here, the 
primary packet features monitored include packet rate, packet size,
and especially for state-full traffic like TCP the pattern of packet arrival.
I don't think Tcpcrypt intends to change the congestion flow-control after start-up,
but the setup and encryption phases would certainly look different
from the typical 3-way handshake. Thus if TCPCRYPT becomes popular, it would 
be very natural for benchmarkers to consider these new packet patterns
and include them in test conditions.

regards,
Al
bmwg co-chair and doc_shepherd