Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst-12

["Vijay K. Gurbani" <[e-mail]>]

On 12/02/2011 02:11 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> What about:
>
> <t>One important thing to remember about SCTP streams is that they
> are uni-directional. The endpoint for which a stream is an outgoing
> stream is called the outgoing side, the endpoint for which the
> stream is an incoming stream is called the incoming side.

Michael: I would reword the above as "The endpoint that originates
the SCTP connection (resulting the the associated stream) is the
outgoing side and the recipient of that SCTP connection becomes the
incoming side."

The rest of what you write below is fine.

> The procedures outlined in this section are designed so that the
> incoming side will always reset their stream sequence number first
> before the outgoing side which means the re-configuration request
> must always originate from the outgoing side. These two issues have
> important ramifications upon how an SCTP endpoint might request that
> its incoming streams be reset. In effect it must ask the peer to
> start an outgoing reset procedure and once that request is
> acknowledged let the peer actually control the reset operation.</t>

Whether or not to include issue of glare, I will leave up to you.

Thanks,

- vijay
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