Re: [manet] I-D Action: draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats-01.txt

[Henning Rogge <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Abdussalam Baryun
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi Henning,
>
> I agree that these things may happen in WG but we should try to not let it
> happen again. Many people may use the RFC5444 and not know that discussion.
> I think the WG Chair assigned within that discussion time is responsible for
> such situation,

I think you are trying to make an issue out of nothing.

First, the errata is a SHOULD, which means that any proprietary
protocol can do whatever it likes.

Second, neither DYMO nor NHDP nor OLSRv2 nor DLEP (which was using
RFC5444 for some time) uses packet sequence numbers.

In fact the only draft I remember which used RFC5444 packet sequence
numbers was the "funkfeuer ETX" draft, which explicitly specified that
the packet sequence numbers had to be interface specific to use this
ETX variant.

Henning Rogge

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