Re: Issue 36: unacceptable addresses (was: confirming consensus on issues from Paris)

[email protected] wrote:

>Jari Arkko wrote:
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>>Issue 36: Unacceptable addresses. There are cases where the
>>initiator does not know which one of the retransmitted
>>requests was really the one seen by the responder and resulted
>>in the unacceptable address error. Pasi's solution for this is
>>to send a new request in this (corner) case.
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>(Back from vacation, and working on MOBIKE again...)
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>I started editing the draft to make this change, but then
>noticed the functionality is actually already there. Version
>-01 says
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>   o  If a new address change occurs while waiting for the 
>      response, starts again from the first step (and ignores 
>      responses to this UPDATE_SA_ADDRESSES request).
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>So in the ambiguous situation (UPDATE_SA_ADDRESSES request has
>been sent using several different src/dst addresses, and we
>don't know which of them was unacceptable), it already says
>we ignore the response and a new request is sent.
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>(But I'll clarify this in -02; also the response is not really
>totally ignored, just not processed by MOBIKE.)
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Works for me.

--Jari