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

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

On 11/30/2011 02:19 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> - S5, second paragraph --- "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."
> A stream is unidirectional. So it is outgoing for one side, incoming
> for the other. The outgoing side has to request the reset, the incoming
> side will perform it and acknowledge that the reset has been performed and
> then the outgoing side will also do the reset.

OK, so let's see ... assume two hosts A and B with two unidrectional
streams open between them:


     --------- a' -------->
  A                         B
     <-------- b' ---------

a' is outgoing stream for A and incoming stream for B.
b' is outgoing stream for B and incoming stream for A.

What you are saying is that either A has to request a reset on a'
or B has to request a reset on b'.  In the worst possible case,
both A and B can request a reset on their respective streams
(A on a' and B on b') without leading to deadlock or a violation
of the protocol.  Yes?

If so, then this discussion at least makes it clear to me.  However,
I will leave it to you on whether or not to clarify this further
in the draft.  When I read the draft initially, I certainly had
enough doubts that resulted in this email exchange.

Thanks,

- vijay
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