[fi-rg] Current draft of the document

[Gian Luca Volpato]

Dear All,

I have read the last version of our document and I would like to  
propose you my quick review. Mostly I have streamlined sentences,  
trying to reduce repetitions and making some concepts easier to be  
presented.

I have also some issues that I would like to discuss with you:

- I propose to define a common terminology: sometimes we talk about  
"dynamic ports" and sometimes about "ephemeral ports" (other example  
is "well-known" and "well-defined" ports). Since these two concepts  
are basically equivalent (al least for me) I would suggest to use only  
one term and thus keep a stronger consistency throughout our document.

- the descriptions of possible solutions are not homogenous: some are  
short, other are very long. I propose to remove the very detailed  
example of "UDP Hole Punching" and leave the general explanation only.

- the description of the "Application Level Gateway / Proxies" is too  
much general. The first two paragraphs repeat concepts already  
presented earlier in the document and the third paragraphs presents  
the main idea in a too short form. Would it be possible to remove the  
first 2 paragraphs and extend the 3rd one with more info?

- the description of the "Framework for Token based Firewalling in  
Hybrid GMPLS Networks" is also very long. Could we reduce it removing  
some parts?

- the last chapter (Summary) describes a very generic and abstract  
solution that we should implement. I would prefer to set few clear  
goals that we would like to reach and describe them in more specific  
terms.


What do you think about having a phone-conf to finalize the document?
As Ralph correctly said it has no meaning to postpone further the  
release of the doc.

Kind regards
/Gian Luca

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On Jan 16, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Ralph Niederberger wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> it's about 3 month ago that Thijs sent out a new draft version of the
> second firewall document
> to the firewalls email list.
>
> I haven't heard any responses to this document. Do you think it is  
> ready
> for being finalized or
> are there any issues additionally to be included or updated.
>
> Next OGF will come up very soon.  I think we should finalizes the
> document as soon as possible.
> I would like to get things done. It doesn't make any sense to wait any
> further.
> If the document has to be updated, then please provide feedback. If  
> not,
> we should go on
> with the text provided until now and get things finalized.
>
> Hoping to set up a new round of discussions, I propose not to delete  
> the
> text discussing the
> varies approaches in Chapter 4. I think this text part describes in  
> more
> detail, why one
> solutions fits for some applications, but does not fit for others.  
> There
> are applications which can
> deal with solution "x" and do not need others (maybe better  
> solutions).
> But there is no
> solution available for all kinds of applications. So what do you  
> think.
>
> best regards
>
> Ralph

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