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Re: [STDS-802-11-TGAI] CID 4741 from LB201



Hello Don,

>   CID 4741 is yours. In it you state that the fragmentation/reassembly scheme
> described in section 9.41 and 9.42 of the TGai draft is overly complex.

No, in this CID I state that the description of the fragmentation/reassembly
scheme, in terms of M and N, is overly complex.

> Would you
> please generate a submission for TGai describing a simpler scheme because I'm
> unable to do it.

I provided this as a proposed change:

"The information to be fragmented is divided into chunks, in order.  The element into which the data would not fit is filled with the first chunk of data and is termed the leading element. The length of the information in the leading element shall be 255. This element shall be immediately followed by zero or more Fragment elements, each containing the next chunk of information.  The length of the information in these elements shall also be 255. Finally, if there is a remaining chunk, this shall be contained in an immediately following Fragment element."

>   Also, would you be willing to take ownership of the other 18 CIDs related to
> these sections since you'd, effectively, be rewriting the whole thing?

Not at this stage, at least in part because I am not sure what my
or TGai's position is on some of them, e.g.:

CID 4513/5089: "Why has another fragmentation scheme been developed here?
Why not re-use the GAS fragmentation scheme design for pre-association
public action frames?"

CID 4897: "It is better to have all data as self-describing rather than
relationally describing - that is, it would be better if the fragment IE
contained two more fields - the IE number of the IE being fragmented and
the fragment number of this fragment"

CID 4902: "An element contains fields. Even if the Fragmentatoin element
allows the element length to go beyond 255, fields cannot be fragmented
across elements. There is no description of how to fragment a field that
has been broken across elements. Furthermore, the length of the
fragmented element is not specified."

Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Harkins [mailto:dharkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 May 2014 08:46
> To: Mark Rison
> Cc: STDS-802-11-TGAI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: CID 4741 from LB201
> 
> 
>   Hi Marc,
> 
>   CID 4741 is yours. In it you state that the fragmentation/reassembly scheme
> described in section 9.41 and 9.42 of the TGai draft is overly complex. Would you
> please generate a submission for TGai describing a simpler scheme because I'm
> unable to do it.
> 
>   Also, would you be willing to take ownership of the other 18 CIDs related to
> these sections since you'd, effectively, be rewriting the whole thing?
> 
>   thanks,
> 
>   Dan.
> 

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