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Re: Consensus call on adopting <draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08.txt>

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> Fri, 22 October 2010 14:46 UTC

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Hi Philip,

On 10-10-22 10:25 AM, Philip Homburg wrote:
> In your letter dated Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:08:15 -0400 you wrote:
>> On 10-10-22 10:06 AM, Philip Homburg wrote:
>>> Maybe this draft should say something about what happens if the 3 router 
>>> solicitations sent by the host are lost.
>> Certainly. We have added Section 5.3 to version -08 of the draft to 
>> account for the case where the host-initiated RSs are lost.
> 
> Sorry, I missed that. That sounds good.

Great.

> 
> But now I'm a bit confused. Given that the AN now has to ability to originate
> RS messages, why is it forwarding the end-device' RS at all? Is that only to
> support SEND?

Exactly. The ability to send host-initiated RSs through is mainly for 
supporting SEND pass through, as this capability was deemed very 
important by the WG.

Thanks
Suresh

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