Re: [MEXT] Mandated behaviors, "whenever possible"

["Ahmad Muhanna" <amuhanna at nortel.com>]

Hello Charlie,

Yep! I actually missed [:)] at the end of the sentence. 
But you explained exactly what I was trying to convey in details!

Best Regards,
Ahmad
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles E. Perkins [mailto:charles.perkins at earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:39 PM
> To: Muhanna, Ahmad (RICH1:2H10)
> Cc: mext at ietf.org
> Subject: Mandated behaviors, "whenever possible"
> 
> 
> Hello Ahmad,
> 
> In one email adding to the discussion about Issue #11 you wrote:
> 
> >           One final note: Any where we mandate that the MN 
> "MUST" send
> >           de-registration, we probably need to have a clause that 
> > "whenever it is
> >           possible for the MN to do so" i.e. if the MN moves to an 
> > area without
> >           coverage, then the MN wont comply anyway.
> 
> Generally, any physical network medium can lose packets under 
> various circumstances.  It would be wrong, I'm sure, to 
> append the "whenever" clause as you suggested to all protocol 
> mandates for all protocols that need to be obeyed by wireless 
> devices.  So I'd rather not have to append that clause 
> anywhere, since it is really already implicit.  Just to be 
> silly, we could rephrase it as "whenever the laws of physics 
> permit", or "whenever the cost is not prohibitive", or 
> "whenever there is no resulting danger of atomic warfare", or 
> <insert special circumstance here>, ...
> 
> Regards,
> Charlie P.
> 
> 
> 
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