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Re: [tsvwg] draft-morton-tsvwg-sce: "Permitted ECN codepoint packet transitions"

"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Fri, 15 November 2019 16:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] draft-morton-tsvwg-sce: "Permitted ECN codepoint packet transitions"
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> I think the possibility of packet loss is inherently implied in the best
> effort nature of IP routing.  The previous wording did include an explicit
> reference to dropping each class of packet, but I thought it was
> unnecessarily verbose like that.
> 
> Is an explicit reference to dropping needed here at all?  If so, I may move
> it to a separate sentence and remove it from the table altogether.

With my coders hat on the drop in the table is explicit and clear,
but either is actually adaquate.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org

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