Re: [Int-area] Apps Directorate Review of draft-ietf-intarea-ipv4-id-update-05

"C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com> Sun, 03 June 2012 05:26 UTC

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On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Glen Zorn wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 21:21 -0700, C. M. Heard wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > In Section 6.1:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >>    Datagram de-duplication can be accomplished using hash-based
> > > >>    duplicate detection for cases where the ID field is absent.
> > > >> 
> > > > 
> > > > Under what circumstances would the ID field be absent?
> > > 
> > > Replace "absent" with "known not unique".
> > 
> > Better, I think, would be "not known to be unique".
> 
> Except that the two are not semantically equivalent.

Indeed.  That was why I suggested the change.

//cmh