Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-nsis-ntlp-sctp-08.txt

Dear Jukka, Dear all

I am supporting the work presented in this draft!

Best regards,
Georgios
 

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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Jukka Manner
> Sent: woensdag 20 januari 2010 19:35
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NSIS] I-D Action:draft-ietf-nsis-ntlp-sctp-08.txt
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> The SCTP transport for GIST has been on our agenda. However, 
> there has been little discussion about it in the last few 
> years. The chairs and our AD want to see active discussion 
> and clear support for the work to warrant us spending more 
> cycles on it, similar to the tunneling document. We already 
> have TCP and UDP available, SCTP (and DCCP) has well-known 
> deployment challenges, and lack of clear use case and 
> "client" for the work. If there is no strong support, we will 
> drop the item at this stage, and come back to it later (in 
> some form or another) if a clear need for the work arises.
> 
> Regards,
> Jukka
> 
> On 20.1.2010 19:30, [email protected] wrote:
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line 
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> > This draft is a work item of the Next Steps in Signaling 
> Working Group of the IETF.
> >
> >
> > 	Title           : General Internet Signaling Transport 
> (GIST) over SCTP and Datagram TLS
> > 	Author(s)       : X. Fu, et al.
> > 	Filename        : draft-ietf-nsis-ntlp-sctp-08.txt
> > 	Pages           : 11
> > 	Date            : 2010-01-20
> >
> > The General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) protocol currently 
> > uses TCP or TLS over TCP for connection mode operation.  
> This document 
> > describes the usage of GIST over the Stream Control Transmission 
> > Protocol (SCTP) and Datagram Transport Layer Security 
> (DTLS).  The use 
> > of SCTP can take advantage of features provided by SCTP, namely 
> > streaming-based transport, support of multiple streams to 
> avoid head 
> > of line blocking, the support of multi-homing to provide 
> network level 
> > fault tolerance, as well as partial reliability extension for 
> > partially reliable data transmission.  This document also specifies 
> > how to establish GIST security over datagram transport 
> protocols using 
> > an extension to DTLS.
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