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Re: [homenet] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-homenet-dncp-10: (with COMMENT)

"Ben Campbell" <ben@nostrum.com> Wed, 30 September 2015 14:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-homenet-dncp-10: (with COMMENT)
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On 30 Sep 2015, at 1:26, Markus Stenberg wrote:

> On 29.9.2015, at 23.46, Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the new appendix B. How should we interpret the 
>> "(optional)"
>> tag on some of the sections of that appendix? For example, does for 
>> the
>> Transport Security section, does (optional) mean the section is 
>> optional,
>> that transport security is optional, or both?
>
> It means that the feature being discussed is optional part of DNCP 
> profile; if you have better a way of noting that, let me know :)
>
> I guess some sort of blanket statement at the beginning of each 
> subsection would convey the message..?
>
> (Multicast subsection actually has paragraph that states ‘if 
> multicast is used..’, making the optional part perhaps bit redundant 
> anyway; the security subsection on the other hand does not.)

I that points at the root of my concern: Do you really want the 
transport security section to be optional? Does that mean people 
creating a profile don't have to think about it?

Thanks!

Ben.

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