RE: WGLC comments on draft-ietf-multi6-architecture-02.txt
<[email protected]> Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:31:15 +0200
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Hi Geoff, > Thanks indeed for your careful review of this document. I've responded > inline to your questions, but in general I agree with the suggestions here Just responding to one open point here: > >2) 1st line, page 8: > > > > "In addition to this objective of session resilience across network > > reachability changes," ... > > > > I had a hard time parsing this at first, perhaps the coffee didn't > > kick in. Is it: > > > > "In addition to this objective of session resilience across network > > reachability changes," ... > > > > or > > > > "In addition to this objective of session resilience during network > > reachability changes," ... > > > > or > > > > "In addition to this objective of session resilience in spite of network > > reachability changes," ... > > > I think its the third. But it needs clarification in any case. What is > going through my head as I read your comments is the distinction between > session resilience DURING the period of routing instability while the > routing system reaches a new converged state as distinct to the objective > of session surviveability BEFORE and AFTER a routing change. I do not think > it is possible to undertake the former (DURING) given that there is no > reliable stable routing state during routing churn, so I did mean BEFORE > and AFTER. I think our goal here is that a session SHOULD survive (TCP connections don't break) but it might not be possible in all cases. I'll let you wordsmith, however. thanks, John