Re: [core] #177: Response suppression for multicast not defined

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

> Thanks, I read coap-09 and saw the new text for multicast response
> handling in section 4.5.  One follow up question:
> 
> 
> - If the multicast message receivers (servers) do send back valid
> responses (e.g. successful Response to a GET), then the original sender
> (or some intermediate CoAP proxy) will receive multiple responses and
> will have to some method of filtering and processing the multiple
> responses.

That is the nature of multicast, so I would expect the need for that to be obvious.
We do not specify local processing, so what exactly the client does with the information is up to the implementer.

> - We show one possible use case in 
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-groupcomm-01#page-17

Indeed, but generally the core-coap draft is very sparse on use cases.

> - Should we have some text in coap-09 to cover this multiple response
> processing as well?

So, in summary, I do not see a need for additions to core-coap.

Grüße, Carsten