Hi,

Say the newly coined "overlay-reliability-timer" (ORT) in base-19 has a
3 second default.

Base-19 section 5.6.3.1 paragraph 6 describes an example of a 500ms RTO
and re)transmission at 0ms, 500ms, 1500ms, 3500ms, 7500ms.  One problem
with this paragraph is that it is mixing receiving ACK with receiving a
response of a request, which are two distinct steps.  The second problem
is obvious, the 4th transmission at 3.5 second overlaps the first ORT.

The second paragraph of this section also says, "A node MUST NOT have
more than one unacknowledged message on the DTLS connection at a time." 
This means RTO trumps ORT such that if a request originator has not
received an ACK from its first hop peer, ORT must not fire or must start
after ACK from the first hop is received.  This does not apply to
intermediate peers.

If this is by design, then it is too important not to spell it out in
the draft. I will come up with some text if everybody agrees on "RTO
trumps ORT" or "ORT starts after ACK" for request originator.

Thanks

--Michael

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