IPP> RFC 3251 - Electicity over IP

IPP> RFC 3251 - Electicity over IP

Robert Herriot bob at herriot.com
Mon Apr 1 17:54:55 EST 2002


So perhaps we should have sent in some IPP specs as April fools specs -- the
joke being that they were real.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl" <carl at manros.com>
To: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald at sharplabs.com>; <ipp at pwg.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: RE: IPP> RFC 3251 - Electicity over IP


> In case you don't know, April 1 RFCs has the highest priority in the RFC
> editor's queue.
>
> Carl-Uno
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ipp at pwg.org [mailto:owner-ipp at pwg.org]On Behalf Of McDonald,
> > Ira
> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:30 AM
> > To: 'ipp at pwg.org'
> > Subject: IPP> RFC 3251 - Electicity over IP
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I couldn't resist sending on this "light" reading:
> >
> > RFC 3251 "Electricity over IP"
> > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3251.txt
> >
> > RFC 3252 "Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (BLOAT)"
> > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3252.txt
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Ira McDonald
> >   High North Inc
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > [from RFC 3251]
> > Abstract
> >
> >    Mostly Pointless Lamp Switching (MPLampS) is an architecture for
> >    carrying electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane).  According
> >    to our marketing department, MPLampS has the potential to
> >    dramatically lower the price, ease the distribution and usage, and
> >    improve the manageability of delivering electricity.  This document
> >    is motivated by such work as SONET/SDH over IP/MPLS (with apologies
> >    to the authors).  Readers of the previous work have been observed
> >    scratching their heads and muttering, "What next?".  This document
> >    answers that question.
> >
> >    This document has also been written as a public service.  The "Sub-
> >    IP" area has been formed to give equal opportunity to those working
> >    on technologies outside of traditional IP networking to write
> >    complicated IETF documents.  There are possibly many who are
> >    wondering how to exploit this opportunity and attain high visibility.
> >    Towards this goal, we see the topics of "foo-over-MPLS" (or MPLS
> >    control for random technologies) as highly amenable for producing a
> >    countless number of unimplementable documents.  This document
> >    illustrates the key ingredients that go into producing any "foo-
> >    over-MPLS" document and may be used as a template for all such work.
> >
> > [from RFC 3252]
> > Abstract
> >
> >    This document defines a reformulation of IP and two transport layer
> >    protocols (TCP and UDP) as XML applications.
> >
> > 1.   Introduction
> >
> > 1.1. Overview
> >
> >    This document describes the Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport
> >    (BLOAT): a reformulation of a widely-deployed network-layer protocol
> >    (IP [RFC791]), and two associated transport layer protocols (TCP
> >    [RFC793] and UDP [RFC768]) as XML [XML] applications.  It also
> >    describes methods for transporting BLOAT over Ethernet and IEEE 802
> >    networks as well as encapsulating BLOAT in IP for gatewaying BLOAT
> >    across the public Internet.
> >
> > 1.2. Motivation
> >
> >    The wild popularity of XML as a basis for application-level protocols
> >    such as the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol [RFC3080], the Simple
> >    Object Access Protocol [SOAP], and Jabber [JABBER] prompted
> >    investigation into the possibility of extending the use of XML in the
> >    protocol stack.  Using XML at both the transport and network layer in
> >    addition to the application layer would provide for an amazing amount
> >    of power and flexibility while removing dependencies on proprietary
> >    and hard-to-understand binary protocols.  This protocol unification
> >    would also allow applications to use a single XML parser for all
> >    aspects of their operation, eliminating developer time spent figuring
> >    out the intricacies of each new protocol, and moving the hard work of
> >    parsing to the XML toolset.  The use of XML also mitigates concerns
> >    over "network vs. host" byte ordering which is at the root of many
> >    network application bugs.
> >
>
>
>
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