>>>>> "Yoshihiro" == Yoshihiro Ohba <[email protected]> writes:
Yoshihiro> As I spoke today, I prefer having informative text on the
Yoshihiro> retransmission issue without using a requirement language
Yoshihiro> such as MUST/SHOULD. This is because a lower-layer can be
Yoshihiro> designed in multiple different ways to deal with silent
Yoshihiro> discarsion of EAP messages, including immediate
Yoshihiro> termination of the lower-layer session, and it is
Yoshihiro> difficult to determine what the best way is. In general,
Yoshihiro> it depends on the characteristics of the target
Yoshihiro> application. For example, an application that is capabile
Yoshihiro> of server-driven retransmission can simply rely on
Yoshihiro> EAP-layer retransmissions to deal with this issue.
I strongly agree with the above.
I'd like to use normative text in the following wway:
Applications specifications SHOULD describe how they handle EAP
retransmission.
I think it would be undesirable to use normative language when
describing which retransmission strategy applications should use.
--Sam
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