IPP> RFC 3251 - Electicity over IP

IPP> RFC 3251 - Electicity over IP

Carl carl at manros.com
Mon Apr 1 17:26:03 EST 2002


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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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