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Re: [Roll] Semantics of DAO ACK

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 31 October 2015 11:56 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <pthubert@cisco.com> message dated "Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:04:54 -0000."
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Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <pthubert@cisco.com> wrote:
    > What I read here boils down to a limited diffusion algorithm. We tried
    > to avoid that in RPL because any movement within the convergence would
    > cause a deadlock. IOW if every node waits for (all of) the parents to

Are you saying that waiting for an ACK from the root will result in an
unstable/non-convergent algorithm?

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