Re: WG ACTION: 2 weeks to discuss [LL61] Remove initial wait

"John C. Welch" <[email protected]> Fri, 07 May 2004 09:08:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.zeroconf
Message-ID <BCC10273.1883108%[email protected]>
On 5/4/04 6:07 PM, "Erik Guttman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was asking about why it is now 1 + [0,1]. What's the extra fixed
> one-second delay for? What is achieved by making the process uniformly
> take a second longer than it should?
> 
> [Erik]
> 
>      Hmm.  Reviewing all records, I can't see how this entered the doc.
>      I don't have time for archeology to find out when it entered.  I
>      don't see why waiting an extra second helps, except to wait for
>      network infrastructure to come up (see ll12).

If we can't see how it got in, it should be taken out.

john

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