RE: Login Failure and Sessions

["Liu, Hong" <Hong.Liu@neustar.biz>]

Scott,

Now I understand what your problem was, -:) Yes, I was referring to option 2
with N to be determined by the server operator.

--Hong

-----Original Message-----
From: Hollenbeck, Scott [mailto:shollenbeck@verisign.com]
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 3:41 PM
To: 'Liu, Hong'; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject: RE: Login Failure and Sessions


> 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-