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

Henning Rogge <henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> Tue, 26 February 2013 14:22 UTC

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