Re: 2821bis consideration - New 2nd attempt Retry Strategy recommendation

[John C Klensin]

--On Saturday, 17 November, 2007 21:54 -0500 "Robert A.
Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> At 00:20 -0800 on 11/17/2007, SM wrote about Re: 2821bis
> consideration - New 2nd attempt Retry Strategy :
> 
>> It's only a lot of retries over four or five days if you
>> retry too  frequently.  Some view the period as too long.  A
>> two-day give-up  period, for example, may result in delivery
>> issues being missed if  it falls over a weekend
> 
> You need at least 4 days to handle 3 day weekends (a holiday
> on Friday or Monday) although I've seen 4 day Holidays (Xmas
> and New Years on a Friday and the company shutting down at
> Noon on Thursday). A better idea is to use 3 days BUT adjust
> it to 4 or 5 days when there is a Friday/Monday holiday
> (although that can still run into problems since it is US
> Centric and can run afoul of Non-US Holidays).

And that is exactly why the guidance in the spec says what it
does.

   john