> > Section 5.2:
> >
> > You say:
> > > When
> > >   available, the cached answer can be used instead of fully processing
> > >   the retransmitted request and forming a new answer from scratch.
> > But:
> > >
> > >   PANA MUST NOT generate EAP message duplication.  EAP payload of a
> > >   retransmitted PANA message MUST NOT be passed to the EAP layer.
> > I'm not sure what the last sentence means, but with all these capital
> > letters it
> > must be important. At first glance, the two statements above seem to be
> > in conflict with one another.  Are you saying that any message carrying
> > EAP payloads must not be retransmitted? Are you saying that if they are
> > retransmitted, that this should somehow be detected and the EAP payload
> > dropped internally before being processed by EAP? This needs to be make
> > more clear.
> 
> The latter is the meaning the text is trying to convey.  Perhaps we
> can rephrase something like:
> 
> "
>   PANA MUST NOT generate EAP message duplication.  EAP payload of a
>   retransmitted PANA message MUST be detected using Sequence
>   Number field of PANA header and the EAP payload contained in the
>   duplicate PANA message MUST be silently discarded internally before
> being
>   processed by EAP.
> "

Why do we care about this? EAP can handle duplicates. 

Can we get rid of this special handling?

Alper








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