> A syntactic error would be any inconsistency of length fields, > incompatibility between a type and a length, or any other error that > would introduce any doubt about the parsing of the message. Once this > type of error has occurred, then the remainder of the data stream is > wholly in doubt. A session reset seems like the only (conservative) > way of handling this, as it's unclear that further data would be > accurate.
both ears > I'm very open to a discussion of alternatives to session flap for > these cases. Should we require manual intervention before session > restart? This would seem reasonable. you may have more faith in the alacrity of manual response than i > Semantic errors would be consistency violations within the contents of > the message. In these cases, treat-as-withdraw seems reasonable. and the tail randy _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list GROW@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
