Hi,

The published -11 text is even better than the proposal below.

Thanks
   Brian Carpenter

On 23/03/2018 08:10, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> That looks good to me. I think it will help implementers.
> 
> Thanks
>    Brian Carpenter
> 
> On 22/03/2018 21:41, Xavi Vilajosana Guillen wrote:
>> Dear Brian,
>>
>> after the WG meeting we proceed to resolve your pointed issue. Thanks so
>> much for going through the draft again.
>>
>> We will publish v11 with the following update on the text as you suggested.
>> We hope this clarifies your point.
>>
>>
>> In section 3.1.1.  2-step 6P Transaction
>> we added:
>> Race conditions MAY happen when a timeout expires while a 6P
>>        Response is on the air.  Other inconsistencies can also happen
>>        when the last L2 ACK for a 6P Response is lost or when one of the
>>        nodes is power cycled.  6P provides an inconsistency detection
>>        mechanism described in Section 3.4.6.1 to cope with such
>>        situations.
>>
>>
>> In section 3.1.2.  3-step 6P Transaction
>> we added:
>>   Race conditions MAY happen when a timeout expires while a 6P
>>        Confirmation is on the air.  Other inconsistencies can also
>>        happen when the last L2 ACK for a 6P Confirmation is lost or when
>>        one of the nodes is power cycled.  6P provides an inconsistency
>>        detection mechanism described in Section 3.4.6.1 to cope with
>>        such situations.
>>
>>
>> kind regards
>> Xavi
>>
>>
>> 2018-03-11 4:11 GMT+01:00 Brian Carpenter <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
>>> Review result: Ready
>>>
>>> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
>>> Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed
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>>>
>>> Document: draft-ietf-6tisch-6top-protocol-10
>>> Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
>>> Review Date: 2018-03-10
>>> IETF LC End Date: 2018-03-26
>>> IESG Telechat date: 2018-04-05
>>>
>>> Summary: Ready
>>>
>>> Comment:
>>>
>>> Most of my previous comments have been fixed, thanks. I still disagree
>>> with the authors on one point, but not enough to delay the draft:
>>>
>>> In section 3.1.1 "2-step 6P Transaction" there seems to be a rare race
>>> condition
>>> if A's timeout expires while B's Response is in flight. This will be
>>> detected
>>> later as an inconsistency (section 3.4.6.2). The authors don't think it's
>>> necessary
>>> to mention this in 3.1.1. IMHO it would be useful to mention. (Similarly
>>> for
>>> section 3.1.2, 3-step transaction.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>

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