You are right.  I think we can remove the last paragraph of Section 5.2.

Yoshihiro Ohba

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:58:37PM +0300, Alper Yegin wrote:
> > > 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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