On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 17:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> So at this week's blocker review meeting, the fact that we don't have
> explicit networking requirements in the release criteria really started
> to bite us. In the past we have squeezed networking-related issues in
> under other criteria, but for some issues that's really difficult,
> notably VPN issues. So, we agreed we should draft some explicit
> networking criteria.

Update: here's a second draft with feedback so far incorporated, thanks
to everyone. Still mulling over whether/how to split it more across
milestones.

=== Network requirements ===

Each of these requirements apply to both installer and installed system
environments. For any given installer environment, the 'default network
configuration tools' are considered to be those the installer documents
as supported ways to configure networking (e.g. for anaconda-based
environments, configuration via kernel command line options, a
kickstart, or interactively in anaconda itself are included).

==== Basic networking ====

It must be possible to establish both IPv4 and IPv6 network connections
using both typical router-provided addressing systems (e.g. DHCP on
IPv4 or SLAAC or IPv6) and static addressing. The default network
configuration tools for the console, for release-blocking desktops and
for installer environments must work well enough to allow typical
network connection configuration operations without major workarounds.
Standard network functions such as address resolution and connections
with common protocols such as ping, HTTP and ssh must work as expected.

Footnote titled "Supported hardware": Supported network hardware is
hardware for which the Fedora kernel includes drivers and, where
necessary, for which a firmware package is available. If support for a
commonly-used piece or type of network hardware that would usually be
present is omitted, that may constitute a violation of this criterion,
after consideration of the [[Blocker_Bug_FAQ|hardware-dependent-
issues|normal factors for hardware-dependent issues]]. Similarly,
violations of this criteria that are hardware or configuration
dependent are, as usual, subject to consideration of those factors when
determining whether they are release-blocking

==== VPN connections ====

Using the default network configuration tools for the console and for
release-blocking desktops, it must be possible to establish a working
connection to common OpenVPN, openconnect-supported and vpnc-supported
VPN servers with typical configurations.

Footnote titled "Supported servers and configurations": As there are
many different VPN server applications and configurations, blocker
reviewers must use their best judgment in determining whether
violations of this criterion are likely to be encountered commonly
enough to block a release, and if so, at which milestone. As a general
principle, the more people are likely to use affected servers and the
less complicated the configuration required to hit the bug, the more
likely it is to be a blocker.