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

Glen Zorn <glenzorn@gmail.com> Sun, 03 June 2012 04:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Apps Directorate Review of draft-ietf-intarea-ipv4-id-update-05
From: Glen Zorn <glenzorn@gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 11:53:57 +0700
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On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 21:21 -0700, C. M. Heard wrote:

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> > > 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.

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