Re: [manet] I-D Action: draft-ietf-manet-dlep-multi-hop-extension-02.txt

Rick Taylor <rick@tropicalstormsoftware.com> Wed, 15 November 2017 02:36 UTC

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From: Rick Taylor <rick@tropicalstormsoftware.com>
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Clarification inline...

On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 01:47 +0000, Rick Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 15:55 +0000, Ratliff, Stanley wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: manet [mailto:manet-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Henning
> > > Rogge
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 2:51 AM
> > > To: MANET IETF <manet@ietf.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [manet] I-D Action: draft-ietf-manet-dlep-multi-hop-
> > > extension-
> > > 02.txt
> > > 
> > > I wonder if should have a "request channel characteristics"
> > > message
> > > to allow
> > > the user to change the behavior of the Session, similar to the
> > > "request link
> > > characteristics" message.
> > > 
> > 
> > Wouldn't the channel be a "characteristic" of the link? What I mean
> > by that is - should we look a whole new message, or new data items
> > describing the channel to add to LCR?
> 
> Yes.

Yes, I think Link Characteristics Request message is the right message.

No, we don't need a new message.

Rick