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Re: Recent trouble with QUIC?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Sun Sep 27 23:15:21 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <560899FC.6010405@lcrcomputer.net>
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:15:17 -0700
To: Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Maybe Google should return the money you paid for access to their search eng=
ine and associated free applications during the time it was down.

Matthew Kaufman

(Sent from my iPhone)

> On Sep 27, 2015, at 6:38 PM, Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
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>> On 09/27/15 16:16, Saku Ytti wrote:
>> On 25 September 2015 at 16:20, Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>>> I remained very disappointed in how google has gone about quic.
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>>> They are dismissive of network operators concerns (quic protocol list an=
d
>>> ietf), cause substantial outages, and have lost a lot of good will in th=
e
>>> process
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>>> Here's your post mortem:
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>>> RFO: Google unilaterally deployed a non-standard protocol to our product=
ion
>>> environment, driving up helpdesk calls x%
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>>> After action: block udp 80/443 until production ready and standard ratif=
ied
>>> use deployed.
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>> I find this attitude sad. Internet is about freedom. Google is using
>> standard IP and standard UDP over Internet, we, the network engineers
>> shouldn't care about application layer. Lot of companies run their own
>> protocols on top of TCP and UDP and there is absolutely nothing wrong
>> with that. Saying this shouldn't happen and if it does, those packets
>> should be dropped is same as saying innovation shouldn't happen.
>> Getting new IETF standard L4 protocol will take lot of time, and will
>> be much easier if we first have experience on using it, rather than
>> build standard and then hope it works without having actual data about
>> it.
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>> QUIC, MinimaLT and other options for new PKI based L4 protocol are
>> very welcome. They offer compelling benefits
>> - mobility, IP address is not your identity (say hello to 'mosh' like
>> behaviour for all applications)
>> - encryption for all applications
>> - helps with buffer bloat (BW estimation and packet pacing)
>> - helps with performance/congestion (packet loss estimation and FEC
>> for redundant data, so dropped packet can be reconstructed be
>> receiver)
>> - fixes amplification (response is smaller than request)
>> - helps with DoS (proof of work) (QUIC does not have this)
>> - low latency session establishment (Especially compared to TLS/HTTP)
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>> I'm sure I've omitted many others.
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> There are advantages to QUIC or Google would not be trying to work on it a=
nd implement it.
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> The problem is that it has been added to a popular application(Chrome) whi=
ch many/most end users know little to nothing about QUIC and what the implic=
ations are when a version in Chrome is defective and harmful to the Internet=
.
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> Part of freedom is to minimize the harm and I think that is where the part=
ies replying to this thread diverge.  A broken change that causes harm shoul=
d have/could have been tested better before releasing it to the public on th=
e Internet.
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> Or if a bad release is let loose on the Internet, how does Google minimize=
 the harm?
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> Lyle Giese
> LCR Computer Services, Inc.

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