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Re: [homenet] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS)

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Wed, 18 November 2015 22:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-09: (with DISCUSS)
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Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015 12:23 PM Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> The bottom line is that I think the reason you have given for not making DTLS MTI is a really bad one.   There is a perfectly good DTLS implementation out there, which is quite easy to use as far as I can tell,
> 
> So I am puzzled. If that is the case, it is not the HNCP implementer who has to
> write any DTLS code (in my book, the word "implement" in a protocol spec means
> "write code"). At most there would need to be a few extra instructions to wrap
> a socket in DTLS, and that code would likely be ifdeffed because it would
> only be used when needed. Which sounds exactly like a SHOULD to me.
> Or maybe "mandatory to be able to switch on." In any case, not part of the
> HNCP protocol itself.

That's why I said MTI, not MTU!   But MTI means not #ifdef.


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