[Nfd-dev] Interest lifetime limit

Junxiao Shi shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu
Thu Mar 20 21:41:28 PDT 2014


Both InterestLifetime and FreshnessPeriod are nonNegativeInteger which
could be up to 8 octets. They are measured in milliseconds.

Yours, Junxiao
On Mar 20, 2014 9:38 PM, "Burke, Jeff" <jburke at remap.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I don't know that we have enough evidence for how this might be used to
> restrict it to ~32 seconds maximum. This isn't even 10x the default value
> and doesn't approach what came up in the unresolved "long-lived interest"
> discussion. On the other hand, millisecond resolution (or decisecond
> resolution, at least) seems like it might also be useful in some cases.
>
> Is there a strong reason for this to be 2 bytes?  Could we have a 4-byte
> long in ms instead, and have the maximum value correspond to a "hold it as
> long as you're willing" behavior?
>
> Is FreshnessPeriod also 2 bytes?   This seems similarly limiting.  This
> wouldn't handle our canonical NYTimes front page example.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On 3/20/14, 9:26 PM, "Giovanni Pau" <gpau at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> >I would not bound it in this way is not better to express it as a 2 byte
> >in seconds so we have the flexibility for future applications?
> >
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