One Last Comment

WaterhouseR <WaterhouseR@mail.ndhm.gtegsc.com> Fri, 01 November 1996 13:36 UTC

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From: WaterhouseR <WaterhouseR@mail.ndhm.gtegsc.com>
Subject: One Last Comment
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4. The timer/retry logic is incompletely specified. Consider the second (last)
message sent by the Responder to the Initiator in the Base Exchange.  The
criterion the Rwesponder is to use in this case for turning off his
timer/retry is not specified.

Also no criterion is provided for the receiving Protocol Machine to clear his
states and return to IDLE when nothing is received.