Re: Action item from yesterday's meeting

Hi Cullen,

--On 24.11.2004 11:23 Uhr +0100 Martin Stiemerling wrote:

> Hi Cullen,
>
> --On Dienstag, 23. November 2004 17:31 Uhr -0800 Cullen Jennings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>|
>| I have not been participating closely I the group so I may have a complete
>| clueless opinion here but ... It seems that people are continuing to
>| deploy things like twice NAT, if we can make the protocol work in these
>| cases without causing major complexity or big issues to the protocol, why
>| wouldn't we? It seemed to me that Srisuresh was proposing that a few
>
> Just to make it clear: The MIDCOM MIB already supports twice-NATs and the semantics did so from the beginning.  So in this sense there is anyway no change needed.
>
>| simple changes could make the protocol be about the same in the case we
>| currently have plus make it usable for a few more cases.
>
> The case presented do not represent a real case in my opinion.

The only concrete case that Suresh presented is the one of ftp PORT.

RFC 1579 recommended already 10 years ago that the PORT command should
not be preferred anymore.  Since then, protocol design considered this
advice and new developed protocols avoid the problem of ftp PORT.

Therefore I agree with Martin that the presented case is not relevant.
In contrary, it would be a step into the wrong direction adding support
for unfavorable (and outdated) protocol design.

Thanks,

    Juergen
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>   Martin
>
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>|
>| On 11/16/04 10:19 AM, "Melinda Shore" <[email protected]> wrote:
>|
>|> I'm intending to get this issue closed in the next week (or sooner,
>|> if possible).  Juergen and Suresh have presented their concerns, and
>|> if there are other people who have opinions or questions or even
>|> just want to indicate how they're leaning, that would be a big help.
>|>
>|> Thanks,
>|>
>|> Melinda
>|>
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