Re: Last Call: 'A Lightweight UDP Transfer Protocol for the the Internet Registry Information Service' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz)

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

william(at)elan.net wrote:

> > my congestion control alarm went off.
> >
> > after reviewing the document, it's still ringing.
> >
> > There's nothing in the document that says "if you want to send 4000 
> > requests, and 70 out of the first 100 get lost, you should slow down 
> > your sending rate to that server".
> >
> > The word "retransmit" does not occur in the document.
> > The word "packet loss" does not occur in the document.
> > The word "congestion" does not occur in the document.
>
>
> Session control is why we have TCP.
>
> Tell us where 'retransmit', 'packet loss' and 'congestion' appear in DNS,
> DHCP or some other UDP-based protocol documents and I'm sure author of
> this spec will be happy to put something similar in his document.

You asked for it...

DNS: RFC 1035 section 4.2.1
DHCP: RFC 2131 section 4.1

When I thought this protocol was about sending occasional queries, I 
didn't worry too much, but Andy indicated that it could be used in 
applications that would send a *lot* of queries, too.







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