RE: [Manet-dt] packetbb - format only

"Luke Klein-Berndt" <kleinb@nist.gov> Tue, 21 March 2006 15:32 UTC

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From: "Luke Klein-Berndt" <kleinb@nist.gov>
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Subject: RE: [Manet-dt] packetbb - format only
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:31:32 -0500
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I am not sure if this needs to be called out in the PacketBB, routing docs
or at all: The overall destination of the packet is contained in the IP
header Dest field. This might be self evident, but might be good to state
since the packet is relying on a separate protocol feature but not calling
it out.

In general it might be good to have a section on minimum expected
processing/routing behavior. Perhaps this could be a separate document. It
would be helpful to implementers to see what they could cut and still serve
as a useful intermediate router. It would also give an idea what protocol
designers could expect. An example might be that if a router is going to
process part of a packet it, it has to process all of it... or something
like this.

-Luke


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Chakeres [mailto:ian.chakeres@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:07 AM
To: manet-dt@ietf.org
Subject: [Manet-dt] packetbb - format only

While talking last night, we discussed whether the packetbb document
should contain some processing semantics on top of the format. In
general, it was stated that though protocols might assume treatment of
certain fields their processing would not be specified in the 
packetbb document.

If you feel some processing behavior should be included in packetbb,
please speak up.

Ian Chakeres

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