Re: NSIS User's guide

Hi Max,

Thank you for the feedback. You are right, the issue of IPv4/IPv6 must be 
spelled out better in a revision (and the language fixed ;).

Jukka

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Max Laier wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Jukka MJ Manner wrote:
> > The draft will be submitted once the I-D admin accepts new documents
> > again in early December. The draft can be found below. We would
> > naturally like to see some discussion about whether people feel such a
> > document would be useful (marketing) material for our work, and if so,
> > is our draft a good or bad start.
> >
> > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jmanner/draft-manner-nsis-user-guide-00.txt
> 
> A good read and useful first introduction.  Some things that caught my 
> eye:
> 
> Section 8.4. "New NSLP protocols" could benefit from a reference to 
> I-D.ietf-nsis-ntlp Appendix B. "API between GIST and Signalling 
> Applications".
> 
> Maybe Fig. 1 as follows:
>              +-----+ +--------+ +-------+
>              |     | |        | |       |
>              | QoS | | NAT/FW | |  ...  |       NSLP
>              |     | |        | |       |
>              +-----+ +--------+ +-------+
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>              +--------------------------+
>              |                          |
>              |          GIST            |       NTLP
>              |                          |
>              +--------------------------+
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>              +--------------------------+
>              |           TLS            |
>              +--------------------------+
>              +--------------------------+
>              | TCP | UDP | SCTP | DCCP  |
>              +--------------------------+
>              +--------------------------+
>              |         IPsec            |
>              +--------------------------+
>              +--------------------------+
>              | IPv4(+RAO)  | IPv6(+RAO) |
>              +--------------------------+
> 
> The document doesn't mention IPv6 at all.  Eventhough it should be 
> considered common place by now, I still think it's worth mentioning.
> 
> And three nits:
> 
>     birds of a feather session on Wednesday 21st March *2001* at the 50th
> 
>                                                         ... only a router
>     that runs GIST and the corresponding NSLP will take the packet out of
>     the fast path, and *start* processing it within GIST.  ...
> 
>                                               If fragmentation is
>     required it automatically establishes an MA and sends the
>     signaling traffic over *a reliable protocol*.
> 
>