Re: [rtcweb] Meaning of SHOULD support/use interleaving

Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> Tue, 28 October 2014 15:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Meaning of SHOULD support/use interleaving
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On 28 Oct 2014, at 14:51, Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>>> I am not suggesting different flavors - I am suggesting to make the usage of interleaving optional. Other SCTP features are also optional (including reliability, ordering etc).
>> 
>> Where are these things optional? According to
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-12#section-6.1
>> an implementation MUST implement PR-SCTP and the support of the FORWARD-TSN chunk will be negotiated similar to the NDATA chunk. I don't see a difference, especially not if we move to MUST support NDATA.
> 
> For example, section 6.1 says:
> 
> 	"The partial reliability extension defined in [RFC3758] MUST be supported."
> 
> However, in CLUE we say that a CLUE entity MUST NOT *use* the extension, as all CLUE messages are required to be sent reliably.
That is OK. However, support for PR-SCTP MUST be there and it will be negotiated. You just never
send a message with partial reliability. At least this is my understanding...

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christer
>