Re: [Dime] Issue#30 status

Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> Wed, 26 February 2014 15:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dime] Issue#30 status
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On Feb 26, 2014, at 7:27 AM, Wiehe, Ulrich (NSN - DE/Munich) <ulrich.wiehe@nsn.com> wrote:

> I did not say that the server MUST do so.
>  
> For my clarification: what is the proposal for OC-Supported-Features in answer messages? Is it  a MUST in all answer messages that correspond to requests that indicated DOIC support? If so, why is it better
> a) to always say “yes I support DOIC” rather than
> b) to always say “current overload is xx”  
> where xx includes the possibility to say “no overload” and of course b) implicitly indicates “yes I support DOIC”

Because B requires considerably more work for both sender and receiver, as well as more data overhead to essentially accomplish the same thing as A.