Re: [tsvwg] SCTP question

[Neil Horman <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 02:42:05PM +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> A colleague of mine, Perry, has a couple of questions about SCTP RFC4960. He's in the BT design team on Signalling protocols and concerned about conformance testing amongst other issues.
> 
> The statement is on page 57 of RFC4960  (section on Association initialisation) "Note: T1-init timer and T1-cookie timer shall follow the same rules given in Section 6.3."
> The question is: how should the "shall" be interpreted in this sentence? Does it mean that the S6.3 rules MUST be followed? Or does it mean that the S6.3 rules are optional - in which case, are there any thoughts about rules other than those in S6.3?
> 
The conventions section indicates that they keyword SHALL is goverened by
RFC2119, which asserts SHALL is synonomous with the keywork MUST.  That is to
say that the phrase above on page 57 of RFC4960 is an absolute requirement.  You
have to have the T1-init and T1-cookie timer follow the same rules given in
Section 6.3

Neil

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> Philip Eardley
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