<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">if you are asking for the current definition: Interest Lifetime is static (i.e. not changed hop-by-hop)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(there had been much discussion on this issue in the past, there are arguments on each side)<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 2, 2021, at 6:28 AM, Waseeq Islam via ndnSIM <<a href="mailto:ndnsim@lists.cs.ucla.edu" class="">ndnsim@lists.cs.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydpf783dc1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""> <div class=""><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""> <div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all,</div><div class="">I want to know that whether Interest Lifetime is static or dynamic in native NDN. Let’s consider the consumer setting the InterestLifetime to 4s. After passing 5 hops, the Interest packet will remain 4s; or it will be dynamically updated with time (e.g., after traversing 4 hops the InterestLifetime will become 3s).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By dynamic Interest lifetime, I mean is it possible for forwarders to use the InterestLifetime to check whether the lifetime of received Interest is greater than zero, so that it participates in its dissemination. </div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div>Thanks in anticipation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="ydp17f7f889gmail-ydpf783dc1csignature"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Regards,</b></div><div style="" class=""><font color="#440062" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">WASEEQ</i></b></font></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">ndnSIM mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ndnSIM@lists.cs.ucla.edu" class="">ndnSIM@lists.cs.ucla.edu</a><br class="">http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/ndnsim<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>