On 6/12/2013 8:32 AM, Brian Haberman wrote:
Hi Bharat,

On 6/12/13 11:06 AM, Bharat Joshi wrote:
Thanks for your reply.

While reading, I felt that adding a 'to' here make things more clearer.

It does make things clearer, but the original wording is correct.

FWIW, I disagree.

Original:

If it is desired to have a particular host be in multiple virtual sites, then that host must determine, for each packet, which virtual site the packet is associated with.

"to have it be X" != "to have it to be X"

The latter could be misinterpreted as:

        to have it become in a state of X

The former means:

        to have it in a state of X


However, the original form is something we should avoid in the future (though I doubt it's worth rewriting).

It would have been preferable to say:

        If a host is a member of multiple virtual sites, then
        that host must determine which site corresponds to
        each packet transmitted or received.

Joe

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