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Re: [Dime] [dime] #45: Why is a validity duration of 0 disallowed?

Steve Donovan <srdonovan@usdonovans.com> Mon, 10 February 2014 15:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dime] [dime] #45: Why is a validity duration of 0 disallowed?
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+1

Do we have agreement to make this change?

Steve

On 2/10/14 5:12 AM, Jouni Korhonen wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 11:54 PM, dime issue tracker <trac+dime@trac.tools.ietf.org> wrote:
>
>> #45: Why is a validity duration of 0 disallowed?
>>
>> Section 4.5 disallows a validity duration of zero. Why do we want to
>> disallow that? It would allow a quick way of ending any existing overload
>> condition without worrying about the semantics of the abatement algorithm.
>> (We currently use a reduction percentage of zero to end an overload
>> condition--but that's specific to the loss algorithm and might not make
>> sense for all future ones.)
> Right. Avoiding two ways of ending overload condition was the reason.
> I am OK to have validity duration 0 as an additional method ending the
> overload condition based on the reasoning above.
>
> - Jouni
>
>
>
>> Note that setting an expiration time to zero is the standard way of
>> removing state in several other protocols (e.g. SIP).
>>
>> -- 
>> -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
>> Reporter:               |      Owner:  draft-docdt-dime-
>>  ben@nostrum.com        |  ovli@tools.ietf.org
>>     Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
>> Priority:  minor        |  Milestone:
>> Component:  draft-       |    Version:  1.0
>>  docdt-dime-ovli        |   Keywords:
>> Severity:  Active WG    |
>>  Document               |
>> -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/dime/trac/ticket/45>
>> dime <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/dime/>
>>
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