[core] Request for clarification of NSTART and concurrent requests

Bryan Green <bryan@aetheros.com> Mon, 15 August 2022 19:04 UTC

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Subject: [core] Request for clarification of NSTART and concurrent requests
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I'm looking for some clarification of NSTART, specifically this wording
under "Congestion Control":

   An outstanding interaction is either a CON for which an ACK has not
>    yet been received but is still expected (message layer) or a request
>    for which neither a response nor an Acknowledgment message has yet
>    been received but is still expected (which may both occur at the same
>    time, counting as one outstanding interaction).
>

Does this wording imply that concurrent CON requests (ACK'ed, but for which
a CON response is still expected) are acceptable if NSTART=1?  If an empty
ACK has been received for a CON request, may a new CON request be sent
before a CON response has been received for the first request, without
violating the NSTART=1 constraint?

Thanks,
Bryan