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An Overview of Reliable Server Pooling Protocols
draft-ietf-rserpool-overview-06

Yes

(Magnus Westerlund)

No Objection

(Cullen Jennings)
(David Ward)
(Mark Townsley)
(Pasi Eronen)
(Ron Bonica)
(Ross Callon)
(Russ Housley)
(Tim Polk)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 06 and is now closed.

Magnus Westerlund Former IESG member
Yes
Yes () Unknown

                            
Cullen Jennings Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
David Ward Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Jari Arkko Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (2008-06-04) Unknown
Section 4.2 says:

  Since the application data (e.g. data channel) is managed by the
  RSerPool framework, unsent data (data not yet submitted by
  RSerPool to the underlying transport protocol) is automatically
  redirected to the newly selected pool element upon failover.  If
  the underlying transport layer supports retrieval of unsent data
  (as in SCTP), retrieved unsent data can also be automatically re-
  sent to the newly selected pool element.

This model seems simplistic. Depending on what your application
semantics are, you may want one of the following:
- resending data that has not been *received* by the server yet
- resending data that has not been committed to stable storage by the
  server yet
- resending information requests that have not been answered yet
- resending state-affecting requests that came after latest state
  cookie was received

Perhaps this is something that you can deal with using the callbacks
that the document talks about later. However, its not entirely clear
to me that the specified default behaviour of sending unsent data
is very useful.

This is a just a comment. You may or may not want to deal with this.
I'm fine with the documents going forward as-is, given that they
are experimental.
Mark Townsley Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Pasi Eronen Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Ron Bonica Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Ross Callon Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Russ Housley Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Tim Polk Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown