Re: [rrg] [ILNP] What to do when Locator Updates are lost

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Wed, 18 July 2012 08:28 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Subject: Re: [rrg] [ILNP] What to do when Locator Updates are lost
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:18:23PM -0400,
 Ran Atkinson <ran.atkinson@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 47 lines which said:

> The precise frequency and interval of retransmissions for LU
> messages is difficult to specify in a precise and correct manner
> absent more operational experience with ILNP implementations.  So
> we've left that detail for a future specification revision,

Makes sense. And I understand it is too late to add anything in the
draft. Keep it in mind for a future revision? It is an interesting
problem.

> the authors have been told very explicitly that no specification
> edits are allowed at this time.

It does not prevent to fix the "compression" bug in
draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-dns-06, I presume?