Re: [manet] DLEP-17: duplicate functions - Options & extensions negotiations

["Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <[e-mail]>]

I'm not convinced by that example. Two extensions operating the way you describe is a potential interoperability nightmare. Different algorithms for calculating the flow control is already an issue - but is the same extension.

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From: Henning Rogge [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 10 December 2015 12:39
To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Cc: Lou Berger; [e-mail]; MANET IETF
Subject: Re: [manet] DLEP-17: duplicate functions - Options & extensions negotiations

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I think it's worth just thinking about this. Can you suggest a 
> plausible example where you need more information than just new 
> message and data item types? It can be an alien space bats example ;)
>
> (Of course there's more needed implicitly - such as what to do with a 
> new message type. But the required information can be carried by just 
> the new message type number.)

We might have different kinds of "flow control" extensions using the same kind of message.

Someone write "Flow Control Extension A"... and from the experiments we learned that we can do a bit better than it, but its still a mutual exclusive choice. So the author writes "Flow Control Extension B"
which reuse the messages he designed for A.

Henning Rogge
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