On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:35 PM <mohamed.boucad...@orange.com> wrote:

> > In Section 5:
> >
> > "If the Map-Server removes the subscription state, it SHOULD
> > notify the xTR by
> > sending a single Map-Notify with the same nonce but with Loc-Count
> > = 0 (and
> > Loc-AFI = 0), and ACT bits set to 5 "Drop/Auth-Failure"."
> >
> > Why is this only a SHOULD?
>
> [Med] This is an optimization. We are consuming up to 4 messages to cover
> the specific case where the xTR sent a Map-Notify-Ack but was lost in
> transmission, while 3 would be just OK when there is an issue in the
> Map-Server-to-xTR forwarding path. What we had initially in mind is to have
> a provision for a policy to disable this.
>

I think you should include something that indicates why one might
legitimately not do what the SHOULD says.  Otherwise, I can do it either
way and expect to interoperate, but I don't understand the choice I'm
making.

-MSK
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