Re: [Roll] Trickle Reset vs Restart

Hi Pascal, All,

Following PR (https://github.com/roll-wg/rpl-observations/pull/7) adds the
text in the RPL-Observation draft for the clarification of these points.
Please let me know if you have any comments.

Regards,
Rahul

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 13:16, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <pthubert@cisco.com>
wrote:

> Hello Rahul
>
> We all observe that restarting the timer can be disfunctional. So yes I
> think it deserves text somewhere, starting immediately in your rich and
> useful observations draft.
>
> I’m happy to add text in the eliding-options draft, for the lack of a
> better carrier. I think that the observation that the timer should not be
> restarted may not be general to trickle but seems general to where we use
> trickle in RPL.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pascal
>
> > Le 21 nov. 2019 à 13:02, Rahul Jadhav <rahul.ietf@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > 
> > During the IETF106 roll-session, we discussed resetting vs restarting
> Trickle. Pascal raised this in another mail as well.
> >
> > After checking RFC 6206 (Section 4.2), I found that there is only one
> notion i.e., to reset Trickle timer, which means going back to Imin and
> starting a new interval.
> >
> > There is no notion of restarting the current timer for the instantaneous
> value of I.
> >
> > This is what my understanding was and reset is all that is needed, IMO.
> I would like to be corrected if there is any use-case, where restarting the
> timer would be needed.
> >
> > We may not need any clarifications on this particular issue. Or do you
> think we should still keep this as a note for implementors in the
> observations draft?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rahul
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