Re: [tcpm] TCP, DCCP, v6, and ICMP soft errors [draft-ietf-v6ops-v6onbydefault-01]

[Eddie Kohler <kohler@cs.ucla.edu>]

Just one point:

> > If Dest. Unreachable is frequently transient, that strengthens my 
> > case.  If it's very infrequently transient, that strengthens 
> > draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-soft-errors.
>
> That would strength your case if someone were proposing to abort 
> connnections in *any* state.

No.  Dest unreachables might commonly be received at the beginning of a 
connection -- as a laptop wakes up, say.  I would expect them to be more common 
at the beginning of a connection than the middle.

Eddie