Re: [Dhcwg] Re: Change to 'seconds' field in DHCP message header

> >I will not respond to any further questions about this.

Promises, promises.   :'}   I'm sorry for all the mistakes in the
previous couple of messages - I'm working from what I remember seeing
a while back, when we had decided to call the message milliseconds and
represent it in milliseconds, so I apparently didn't read your writeup
very carefully.   :'(

> Are you referring to the granularity of the 'secs' field?  How
> would you make it more fine-grained if the units for the fields
> are defined as "seconds" in the spec?

I'm referring to timeout computations.   And if timeout computations
are more fine-grained, then it would make sense for the secs field to
be more fine-grained as well.   Otherwise the implementor has to
answer the question "if the difference between the last transmission
time and the current transmission time is less than one half the
granularity, do I specify an interval of zero or one?"   I would
rather not force the implementor to make this decision, because s/he
will get it wrong, probably even if it is carefully specified in the
draft.   I don't know many junior geeks who have taken courses in
numerical methods.

			       _MelloN_

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