Re: (virtual) hum on CARD open issues

Dear Vijay,

Could you provide a text to be included in the draft on rate limiting. We 
can include it in the draft after discussing it over mailing list. It 
probably wont suffice to say that rate limiting is in lot of protocols and 
hence not needed here. Different protocols use different rate limiting. E.g. 
TCP uses rate limiting, but it wont be appropriate for CARD.

If you are proposing to limit the rate by simply enforcing limit on 
aggregate rate of requests, I can easily argue that it is ineffective. So 
the question is: Wheater WG wants per MN rate limiting? If so, does it have 
to be using R flag or using limit on per-MN rate of request? And then, you 
can refer us to protocol that uses that type of rate limiting and we will 
simply refer to it - will save lot of writing.

Hemant


>From: Vijay Devarapalli <[email protected]>
>To: Singh Ajoy-ASINGH1 <[email protected]>
>CC: "Pat R. Calhoun" <[email protected]>, [email protected],    
>     [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Seamoby] (virtual) hum on CARD open issues
>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:39:12 -0700
>
>Singh Ajoy-ASINGH1 wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Issue #2: R-flag for CARD Request rate limiting. What to do about 
>potential Dos issues? WG consensus is to Keep the R-flag approach. Meeting 
>consensus is to add clarifying text to section 4.2 (4.3?)
> >
> > this is wrong, IMHO. rate limiting is a well known mechanism.
> > introducing a new flag is not a bright idea.
> >
> > ajoy-> Why it is a bad idea?  Well, I am neutral in this
> > issue but I am not convinced why using R bit is worse than
> > your proposed solution.
>
>simple. rate-limiting is implemented in a wide variety of
>protocols (infact for any message that creates state at
>the receiving node). nothing new here. you dont need a new
>mechanism for this.
>
> > > 3. Issue #33: Inter-AR CARD protocol transport from UDP to ICMP. The 
>editor recommends the use of ICMP to make it consistent with the mobile 
>interface. Potential downsides: ICMP has potential security implications. 
>ICMP message types on binding is also very implementation specific. Also, 
>securing ICMP would require that all ICMP packets be secured. Meeting 
>consensus is to keep UDP.
> >
> > 2 and 3 dont go togetheer. defining CARD messages as ICMP
> > options lets you piggyback these options on FMIPv6 messages.
> > I am not sure how you can achieve piggybacking if the MN-AR
> > signaling becomes UDP. ICMP was the right choice between
> > the MN and the AR.
> >
> > AJOY-> Well I did not attend IETF meeting, but I guess this means ICMP 
>for
> > MN-AR and UDP for AR-AR interface. Others' please correct me.
>
>oops... I misunderstood. I thought the concensus at the
>meeting was to use UDP for both.
>
> > BTW, why are you in favor of
> > using ICMP for AR-AR interface?
>
>otherwise you need seperate code for processing an ICMP
>CARD Request (from the MN) and UDP CARD Request (from
>the PAR). also, if it is an ICMP message, I can piggyback
>CARD messages on HI/HACK messages of FMIPv6.
>
>
> > unbelievable. the CARD protocol is already complicated (IMO).
> > the emphasis should be on reducing the complexity. just use
> > a value of infinity for the lifetime field to indicate a
> > static capability. any other value for the lifetime indicates
> > dynamic capability. I think for the CARD protocol, emphasis
> > should be on making it a simpler protocol than saving 4 bytes
> > over the air. :)
> >
> > if you are concerned about an overhead of 4 bytes, make the
> > lifetime field 2 bytes. a 2 byte lifetime field gives you
> > 65536 seconds which should be enough. do you need a 4 byte
> > lifetime field?
> >
> > AJOY-> I disagree here. Saving even 2 bytes per capability is
> > huge saving for bandwidth constraint network. I am not sure
> > processing one flag will make CARD protocol any more complicated.
> > Btw, in cellular standard I have seen even more complicated
> > procedure for saving 4 bits per frame. Please note that
> > the CARD protocol is being proposed as an experimental
> > protocol so we will have opportunity to make such
> > changes in future if required.
>
>but in the current form not many people are going to use
>it. it might remain forever as an experimental, untouched,
>ignored, just another RFC.... that is something we should
>avoid. I want a protocol that I can use. :)
>
>Vijay
>
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