Comments on draft-sijeon-dmm-use-cases-api-source-04

Alexandre Petrescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mip6
Message-ID <33ccd706-a338-4839-5992-66b8c4d02526__8558.3382788629$1469032970$gmane$org@gmail.com>
Hi DMMers,

I read draft-sijeon-dmm-use-cases-api-source-04 and I have a few comments:

> Applications such as a text-based web browsing or information-centric
> service, e.g. weather and stock information, as well as legacy
> applications may belong to this category.  As many applications
> require short-lived Internet connection without session continuity
> and IP address reachability,

These are _interactive_ web browsing applications - both the text-based
such as lynx, and graphics-based such as firefox browsers, are
interactive and needs a short-lived Internet connection, such as a
short-lived TCP socket (user clicks, socket opens, retrieve page through
that socket, socket closes, then user clicks again - that's interactivity).

It is little qualified to call them 'text-based'.

The same with 'information-centric' - there should be a better term for
that.  It is typically data that is 'consumed' by the human user (as
opposed to POSTing data, and as opposed to consumption by machines).  It
would be better to talk about such consuming, rather than
'information-centric' which may make think of ICN: information-centric
networking.

> The suggested flag, IPV6_REQUIRE_NON-PERSISTENT_IP, defined in
> [I-D.ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility] is used for expressing its
> preference to the IP stack.

This is a parameter to which function?  To socket ()?  ioctl ()?  Is
there a brief example of 5 lines of C code about how to call it?

Alex
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