Yeah, IPv6 fragment handling, for example, does deal with error conditions, and even
with conditions which may seem out of the ordinary but which shouldn't be considered
errors.
 
-gabriel

----- Original Message ----
From: Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Geoff Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 6lowpan <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:00:49 AM
Subject: Re: [6lowpan] comments on draft 5

On Oct 26, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Geoff Mulligan wrote:

>
> For the same reason and and per the discussion with Phil, I think that
> the next paragraph (starting with "If a link fragment") should also be
> removed.

I'd differ on this one; it's good to describe what to do in error  
conditions without constraining the implementation unduly. Otherwise  
adversaries can profile your device based on its responses. That  
being said, it's really not a big deal, and so if nobody else feels  
strongly in this direction I have no objections to removing the  
paragraph.

Phil

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