Re: [manet] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5444 (3496)

On 26 févr. 2013, at 16:00, Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@gmail.com> wrote:

> I like that protocols use the packet sequence number, if thoes protocols you refered to don't use the packet SQN, then I recommend they reconsider.

Why?

"Like" is not a technical argument.

Thomas

> I was always interested in the funkfeuer ETX" draft I even asked you to start it again but never seen your announcement of new draft, still waiting,
>  
> As you know, I may use WE or I when I discuss, you never know how many machines are with me while I am participating (on their behalf sometimes) from my room :-)
>  
> AB
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Henning Rogge <henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> On 02/26/2013 03:09 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:
>>> Hi Chris, and All Does the changes in RFC5444 will affect other RFCs
>>> or protocols? we need to discuss this through, because many depend on
>>> RFC5444,
>> 
>>> and we did not understand the authors suggestions
>> 
>> maybe you intended to write "I did not understand..." ?
>> 
>> 
>> > as they are the experts of the work, AB
>> 
>> Allow me to quote myself from yesterday...
>> 
>> On 02/25/2013 06:17 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> 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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