RFC Errata
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Status: Held for Document Update (1)
RFC 5847, "Heartbeat Mechanism for Proxy Mobile IPv6", June 2010
Source of RFC: netlmm (int)
Errata ID: 2302
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2010-06-15
Held for Document Update by: Brian Haberman
Section 3.1, pg. 5 says:
A PMIPv6 node (MAG or LMA) matches every received Heartbeat Response to the Heartbeat Request sent using the sequence number. Before sending the next Heartbeat Request, it increments a local variable << page break >> | MISSING_HEARTBEAT if it has not received a Heartbeat Response for the | previous request. When this local variable MISSING_HEARTBEAT exceeds a configurable parameter MISSING_HEARTBEATS_ALLOWED, the PMIPv6 node concludes that the peer PMIPv6 node is not reachable. If a Heartbeat ! Response message is received, the MISSING_HEARTBEATS counter is reset.
It should say:
A PMIPv6 node (MAG or LMA) matches every received Heartbeat Response to the Heartbeat Request sent using the sequence number. Before sending the next Heartbeat Request, it increments a local variable | MISSING_HEARTBEATS if it has not received a Heartbeat Response for | the previous request. When this local variable MISSING_HEARTBEATS exceeds a configurable parameter MISSING_HEARTBEATS_ALLOWED, the PMIPv6 node concludes that the peer PMIPv6 node is not reachable. If a Heartbeat Response message is received, the MISSING_HEARTBEATS counter is reset.
Notes:
Rationale:
The RFC text varies between singular and plural form of the name
of the local variable. A single name is necessary for consistency.
Paraphrasing from MIB doctor guidelines, counter variables should
always be in plural form. Additionally, the related configurable
parameter is called "MISSING_HEARTBEATS_ALLOWED " in the RFC.
Therefore, "MISSING_HEARTBEATS" is chosen above as the appropriate
form and the instances of "MISSING_HEARTBEAT" are changed to the
plural form.