Re: [dcp] Re: dcp digest, Vol 1 #18 - 1 msg

[Mark Handley <mjh@icir.org>]

>On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:49, Mark Handley wrote:
>> 
>> If it would cause a problem that side A
>> starts using a feature that the side B has requested before the answer
>> reaches side B, then it is necessary for that feature to be
>> self-explanatory from the data packets.  This is not the case for
>> features such as ACK-ratio, but it is something that feature designers
>> need to think about.
>> 
>
>This sounds like the kind of thing that should go into the
>API/implementors advisory document we talked about.  Don't you think? 
>Helping implementors do the right thing is important.

Yes, definitely.  Probably quite a bit of our rationale should go
there - currently it's still in our heads, which probably isn't optimal.

Cheers,
	Mark



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