RE: new draft on IPv6 CPE router available for review

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote:

> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-01.txt

Hi,

I am happy with the writing of the first chapter of 5.3.2, but the second 
chapter perhaps needs to be lifted out of 5.3.2 as it refers to text both 
in 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 ? Perhaps the second chapter of 5.3.2 needs to be 
5.3.3? If indeed intended for 5.3.2, perhaps the mention of WAN globally 
routable IP address is a typo?

In 9, would it make sense to also mention other queuing and marking 
mechanisms? I think home users would be very much helped by other queuing 
mechanisms than a few fifo queues? To my home (I use cisco routers) I have 
a fairly advanced set of bandwidth reservation queues and do fair-queue on 
the rest of the traffic, and this helps a lot compared to just fifo in 
each queue. I would love to see this functionality in smaller devices as 
well, as this would most likely help the "I have 24/1 ADSL and when I run 
bittorrent and upload, my download speeds drop)", as a more advanced 
queuing algorithm could prioritize TCP ACK packets (or just small packets 
in general). I believe Linux already has a lot of this, so for a vendor 
using embedded Linux, this would be fairly easy to enable and recommending 
it in the draft might help them in their decision to do so.

Apart from that, I am grateful that you included the unnumbered model as 
an option in the draft. Thanks a lot!

Regards,

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se