Evaluation: draft-ietf-pilc-link-design - Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers to BCP

[IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>]

Last Call to expire on: 2003-3-7

	Please return the full line with your position.

                    Yes    No-Objection  Discuss *  Abstain  


Harald Alvestrand   [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Steve Bellovin      [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Scott Bradner       [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Randy Bush          [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Patrik Faltstrom    [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Bill Fenner         [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Ned Freed           [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Allison Mankin      [ X ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Thomas Narten       [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Erik Nordmark       [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Jeff Schiller       [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Bert Wijnen         [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]
Alex Zinin          [   ]     [   ]       [   ]      [   ]

 2/3 (9) Yes or No-Objection opinions needed to pass. 
 
 * Indicate reason if 'Discuss'.
 
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Subject: Protocol Action: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers to
	 BCP
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Advice for Internet
Subnetwork Designers' <draft-ietf-pilc-link-design-13.txt> as a BCP.
This document is the product of the Performance Implications of Link
Characteristics Working Group.  The IESG contact persons are Scott
Bradner and Allison Mankin.

 
Technical Summary
 
This document provides advice to the designers of digital
communication equipment, link-layer protocols and packet-switched
subnetworks (collectively referred to as subnetworks) who wish to
support the Internet protocols but who may be unfamiliar with the
Internet architecture and the implications of their design choices on
the performance and efficiency of the Internet.

The document includes among its topics: recommendations about maximum
transmission units and their tradeoffs for slow subnetwork types;
issues with connection-oriented subnetwork designs; recommendations
for multicast capabilities for links; recommendations for reliability,
error control, and their interactions with TCP, as the major reliable
transport protocol in the Internet; recommendations about use of
compression; recommendations about avoidance of significant packet
reordering; and recommendations that both link-level and end-to-end
security be used for their particular benefits.

This document represents a consensus of the members of the IETF
Performance Implications of Link Characteristics (PILC) working
group.

Working Group Summary

The working group strongly supported advancement of this
document.


Protocol Quality

The document was reviewed for the IESG by Mark Allman and Allison
Mankin.