RE: Fwd: Minutes / Notes

["Grovesteen, Harold" <Grovesteen@aafes.com>]

YES!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Li [mailto:Tony.Li@procket.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:38 PM
To: J. Noel Chiappa; multi6@ops.ietf.org
Subject: RE: Fwd: Minutes / Notes



Noel,

|    This is only important if you want TCP connections to be 
|    able to survive
|    having an incoming link fail (i.e. the address on the 
|    local end becomes
|    unreachable to the rest of the network). This may not be 
|    an important goal
|    (e.g. the typical web site wouldn't care).


I believe that the WG has come to rough consensus that this is,
in fact, an important goal for us to solve.  There are 
numerous practical applications that drive this.  More generally,
we (IETF, vendors) are being asked to make the Internet safe
for "mission critical" applications and having broken TCP
connections is simply unacceptable.  Many applications today
are being outsourced: backups, storage, business applications,
interactions within an 'extra-net', etc.

Tony