Re: [tcpm] draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-09: AccECN option: why not EE1B first?

Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Thu, 14 November 2019 18:01 UTC

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:00:59 -0500
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-09: AccECN option: why not EE1B first?
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:47 PM Bob Briscoe <ietf@bobbriscoe.net> wrote:
> On 14/11/2019 10:06, Scheffenegger, Richard wrote:
> > Perhaps placing a different inital value in the first counter would
> > implicitly signal this better?
> I'll think about this - we can discuss at the hackathon.
> Another possibility would be to assign two option kind values for two
> different option orders - I think I prefer this.
>
> >
> > The folks from IPPM will not be all too happy with the semantics of
> > field values depening on some (possibly missed by passive observation)
> > initial value though...
> Well, true. But I don't think that's a show-stopper. Two option kind
> values would address this.

Two option kind values sounds like a nice solution, IMHO. Clear,
simple, and fast.

best,
neal