FW: [rohc] New version of chapter 5.9

["Dr. Carsten Bormann" <cabo@informatik.uni-bremen.de>]

From: Dr. Carsten Bormann [mailto:cabo@tzi.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:43
To: Anton Mårtensson (ERA); 'Lars-Erik Jonsson'; rohc
Subject: RE: [rohc] New version of chapter 5.9


> I suggest that the following sentence is added to the
> crc text.
>
> "The initial content of the crc register SHOULD be preset to all 1's."

Actually, it MUST be preset to a defined value (like all 1's), or we won't
interoperate.
(See RFC 2119 for the usage of keywords like SHOULD and MUST.)
I would recommend to use RFC2119 keywords sparingly, though, so the spec
should just say how the CRC works.

I think further discussion is needed about the statement:
"This makes it possible to recalculate the checksums after the
decompression."

Gruesse, Carsten