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Re: [Roll] Semantics of DAO ACK

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 15 October 2015 15:06 UTC

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On 09/30/15 00:44, Csaba Kiraly wrote:
> What Cenk is saying sounds a reasonable hack, but the standard itself 
> is in my opinion a bit underspecified for the semantics of DAO-ACK 
> messages in several ways.


I think that a document that updates RFC6550 would be very welcome, even 
if it just describes this single issue.   I think it is premature to 
consider revising/advance RFC6550 from PS to Internet Standard, but a 
series of small updates would make that activity significantly easier.

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