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Re: on <close-session>



David B Harrington writes:
> From RFC2119:
> SHOULD   This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
>    may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
>    particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
>    carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

> What implications would there be from not implementing to discard RPCs
> upon detection of a lost connection?

> One implication is the waste of bandwidth. If the use case of a
> manager not waiting for a response is not expected, then to be a
> good Internet citizen, one SHOULD cease processing.

Actually, since all our mappings use TCP at the lowest level, there
wouldn't even be loss of bandwidth, because the agent's TCP would
refuse to send TCP segments when it has detected that the connection
is broken.
-- 
Simon.


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