Hi, Alia,

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Typed too fast - looping wouldn't happen if the TTL is decremented.  What
> would
> happen is that the packet would be dropped.  I think the text change shows
> that
> but happy to poke more :-)
>

Right, I'm talking about the problem where looping happens.

Spencer


>
> Alia
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Alia,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Spencer,
>>>
>>> I think that the "may not work properly" means that the packet would be
>>> dropped
>>> by the local PE.  The looping issue would happen if the TTL weren't
>>> decremented
>>> and that language is being removed.
>>>
>>
>> So, that's two different issues? It might be be great to call them out
>> separately, if so ...
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alia
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Spencer Dawkins <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Spencer Dawkins has entered the following ballot position for
>>>> draft-ietf-bess-virtual-subnet-06: No Objection
>>>>
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>>>> I support Alia's Discuss. I see that there's proposed text to resolve
>>>> that position.
>>>>
>>>> I will remain a No-Objection if that proposed text is adopted, but I
>>>> would be more comfortable if the proposed text was more specific than
>>>> "may not work properly" - is there anything else that can go wrong,
>>>> besides unbounded looping?
>>>>
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