Re: [SAM] draft-kolberg-sam-baseline-protocol-00

[Dr Mario Kolberg <[e-mail]>]

Dear Gustavo,

many thanks for your comments.

> Another not so clear item is how the API in Sec. 5 articulates with Sec. 
> 6.  Sec.6 starts like this:
> 
>     In this document we define messages for hybrid overlay multicast
>     tree creation...
> 
> 
> I get the feeling this used to be a separate draft that was converted to 
> a section of another draft.  I suppose that the Protocol described is 
> triggered by API calls of the Sec. 5 API, but I get the feeling I am 
> guessing what should be explicitly stated in the document.  In that 
> sense, draft-waehlisch-sam-common-api-02 (Fig. 2) is clearer.

Yes section 5 is the API to the application, whereas section 6 describes 
the API between nodes. And yes this draft is based on a number of 
previous drafts. The aim is to align them and to form a base document 
for the WG. I accept there is still some work to be done.

Mario



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