[Roll] [roll] #91: Is it possible for an origin to get an error message in case the P2P-RPL route discovery fails.

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#91: Is it possible for an origin to get an error message in case the P2P-RPL
route discovery fails.

 Discussion:
 [Cedric]
 On big question that rise my mind is, what happened if the route discovery
 fail ?
 Some protocols sends out an error message when the route discovery fails
 or get stuck.
 Do authors think that it could be relevant to add a "discovery-error"
 message as defined in other route discovery protocols ?

 [Mukul]
 I dont think it is possible to detect the failure of a P2P-RPL route
 discovery. No node knows if a P2P-RPL route discovery has failed.

 P2P-RPL forms a temporary DAG and the route discovery (well, at least the
 first half) succeeds when a target joins the DAG. Only the target knows
 whether it joined the DAG or not. So, no node knows if the (first half of
 the) route discovery failed.

 Second half involves the target sending DRO to the origin. If the DRO does
 not reach the origin, (the second half of) the route discovery fails. The
 target can ensure (or at least increase the probability of) success by
 asking for DRO-ACK and retransmitting the DRO if the DRO-ACK is not
 received within certain time duration. DRO message travels by multicast,
 so an intermediate router, that forwards a DRO further, has no idea
 whether the next hop on the route received the DRO or not. Again, no node
 knows if the (second half of the) there is no one to generate the
 discovery-error message.

 I think an origin might infer the route discovery to have failed, if the
 DAG's life time has expired but no DRO is received. But I am not sure we
 should mandate this to be the way failure is inferred. We have just 4
 values for the DAG life time. So, I think we should leave it to origin how
 much to wait for a DRO before admitting failure.

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 Reporter:  jpv@…                  |      Owner:  mukul@…
     Type:  defect                 |     Status:  new
 Priority:  major                  |  Milestone:
Component:  p2p-rpl                |    Version:
 Severity:  Submitted WG Document  |   Keywords:
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/roll/trac/ticket/91>
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