Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Last Call review for draft-ietf-netlmm-pmip6-ipv4-support-12

Sri Gundavelli <sgundave@cisco.com> Mon, 18 May 2009 19:38 UTC

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From: Sri Gundavelli <sgundave@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Last Call review for draft-ietf-netlmm-pmip6-ipv4-support-12
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Hi Spencer,



On Mon, 18 May 2009, Spencer Dawkins wrote:

>>  Otherwise, the requester will recv the same error code.
>
> I'm sorry, I'm not asking the question clearly - I'm asking why these SHOULD 
> NOTs aren't MUST NOTs. Is there a reason why the requestor would resend the 
> messages for the same service, without changing anything?
>
> If there's a reason, SHOULD NOT would be appropriate. If there's not a 
> reason, perhaps MUST NOTs would be more appropriate.
>

Thanks for the clarification.

MUST NOT, might be too strong for this. For what ever reasons,
a given implementation might prefer to resend after some time.
We really need not even specify this, but for completeness we
just put this with "SHOULD NOT".

Sri