RE: Login Failure and Sessions

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> I understand your concerns, but the retrial number N is really a
> configuration parameter. It is not unusual to leave this type 
> of parameters
> for run-time configuration, take the windowing protocol as an 
> example. The
> size of the window is not fixed in the spec.

You didn't address the problem I presented: the need to craft a
deterministic state diagram.  If what you're saying, though, is that you
prefer option 2 (blast the connection after N failures) with the value of N
(0 <= N <= inf) to be determined by the server operator, I can work with
that.  That's at least easier to describe formally than "it's a policy
issue". ;-)

-Scott-