Re: [6tisch] draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-security: Error code and server state

Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com> Fri, 05 April 2019 14:32 UTC

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From: Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com>
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Subject: Re: [6tisch] draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-security: Error code and server state
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Hello Mališa,

> Let me know what do you think.

thanks for the update, this addresses my concerns.

Only a small question remains: When a pledge sends [0 /* unsupported */,
42 /* some fancy extension */, X] as an Unsupported Configuration, why
should it send the full value that was sent with the join response and
not just a syntactic placeholder (null)?

Best regards
Christian

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