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Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Win2000 and BIND GSS-TSIG Interoperability?
From: Paul Leach (paulleEXCHANGE.MICROSOFT.COM)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 18:49:25 CST

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul B. Hill [mailto:pbhMIT.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 11:15 AM
> To: Paul Leach
> Cc: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
> Subject: RE: (Fwd) Re: Win2000 and BIND GSS-TSIG Interoperability?
<snip>

>
> OK, assuming that your assertion is correct, there have been
> Microsoft
> presentations in the past that also alluded to optimizing
> network traffic.
> (I'm pretty sure that by having this topic appear on the
> NTbugtraq list
> that won't happen in the future.)

I think they were just speaking loosely. It should reduce the number of
network _messages_ (one meaning of "traffic") but as you point out, not
necessarily the total number of _bits_ of traffic (a different meaning of
"traffic").
<snip>

>
> I was surprised to hear that MS noticed the effect so late in
> development
> cycle. I didn't pick up on the problem from traffic sniffing. I was
> thinking about other protocol issues and realized that this
> should be a
> side effect of the name canonicalization. Then I started
> reviewing the
> traffic to confirm that it was occurring.

It was the realization that the extra traffic might be significant that came
late.

>
> Please talk about proposed protocol changes in the
> appropriate IETF working
> group lists early and often. :)

Please don't say "protocol change". We only extended the protocol in
backwards compatible ways.

Paul