Re: IRIP version 4 (Part 1) - Bounded latency

[sman@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Mansour)]

Bruce_Kahn@iris.com wrote:

> Missed my point.  Your current draft text is misleading.  It say:
>
> ...the Sender can either obtain an immediate
> response from a request or discover within a known amount of time that
> the request _cannot_be_ completed...
>
> There is NO way discover if the request cannot be completed (ever) short of
> waiting for infinity (or the receiver returns a "You ate to many resources"
> error response).  However the sender can discover if the request will
> complete in, say, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, etc.  Just change "cannot be
> completed" to "has not yet completed" and all is fine.

That was the spirit of the comment. I did not mean to imply that the request
can never be completed... only that it did not complete in the time you
specified.

that text has been fixed.

-Steve
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