All,
I am sympathetic with all the concerns raised on this thread. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is an easy solution.
Jon, “ignore” (especially “shall ignore”) is pretty specific. The STA is not allowed to take any action. That precludes some implementation-specific actions that are currently in use in the field (including WFA stuff, and proprietary stuff).
Further, there is a challenge around “if a STA does not know what something is”. Do we really want to say that (or something like it)? What do we mean by whether the STA “knows” what it is – meaning that the Standard defines it, or that it is in the “implementation-specific” bucket(s) above? But, maybe that is a better answer than leaving things completely as “unspecified behavior” for the reasons Sean mentions…? Or, we need to say something more wordy, like the action of the STA when it receives a reserved value is unspecified “only in regards to that value” (somehow)?
Mark
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I would say that "ignore" is the better path.
We say in many places if a STA does not know what something is, then ignore it.
If it is important, then we should define it differently.
FWIW,
Jon
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:37 AM Sean Coffey <coffey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi Joe, Abhi, Mark, and all,
I would prefer language that deletes the word “undefined” everywhere.
What exactly are we trying to achieve by including this word? In particular, just how far do we think the “undefined” behavior can go? For example, suppose a receiver encounters a reserved value that triggers “undefined” behavior in a PPDU that is not addressed to it, and interprets that as “treat the current PPDU as noise, and revert to backoff counter countdown”. Is that permissible? There is precedent for this exact interpretation.
In some ways, adding a statement that the behavior is undefined makes matters worse than saying nothing at all, because it might be taken to imply that the standard is authorizing any receiver behavior.
There must be some limits on what a receiver can do. It would be better to define those limits and leave it at that.
Regards,
Sean
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HI Abhi, Mark, and All –
Abhi – thanks for digging through the standard to find the text you provided. Unfortunately, I believe the text only applies to the case it addresses – the requirement is that a STA when receiving a GAS frame process the whole frame even if it finds an unknown or reserved value, if the frame is received without error. This is critical for GAS as it is possible that a STA may not know all the values sent in a GAS frame and receiving such a value should not stop the STA from receiving the rest of the values in the GAS frame. The general case we are dealing with is the reception of a reserved value in any field or subfield, the general case.
Therefore:
I would favor a more direct wording in the transmission requirement:
“Reserved values for a field or subfield shall not be used in a transmitted field or subfield.”
And I support Mark’s proposal to include “unless otherwise specified”, but suggest the following text:
"A STA’s behavior when a reserved value is received in a field or subfield is undefined, unless otherwise specified."
Regard,
Joseph
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There was an error when I sent the email below to the REVme reflector yesterday. Retrying again.
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Hi Mark,
Thank you for your email.
I am fine with the additional text you suggested.
>> [What are examples of "the behavior at the receiver is clearly defined (i.e., to ignore the reserved value)"?
>> Are there any outside Clause 12?]
Yes, I found some instances in other clause (see P1891 L01, L31, L50 in D2.1) where there is a behavior associated when a certain (reserved) value is received.
Take for example the following instance in clause 11 (P2642):
There are many other such instances (outside clause 12).
Therefore, we can’t say the behavior is undefined at the receiver.
Your proposed addition (“unless otherwise specified”) will address it.
Regards,
Abhi
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[Restricting to TGm reflector to avoid spamming the world.]
The group came-up with the following text for the receive side [second sentence on line 36 page 574]:
"Upon reception of a reserved value in a field or subfield, the behavior is undefined."
However, there is a debate on whether or not we need to specify anything for the receive side. For instance, there are occasions where the behavior at the receiver is clearly defined (i.e., to ignore the reserved value) and therefore, it is incorrect to say the receive side behavior is undefined. Personally, I feel, we should delete the sentence and leave the behavioral aspects to the pertinent clauses (which is already the case at several instances in the spec).
I do think we need to make it clear that using reserved values in
non-reserved fields will in general have unpredictable effects.
Note that the scope of all this is just Clause 9, so anything
in say Clause 12 about needing to ignore reserved values is not
affected. However, we could make this clear like this:
"Upon reception of a reserved value in a field or subfield, the behavior is, unless otherwise specified, undefined."
[What are examples of "the behavior at the receiver is clearly defined (i.e., to ignore the reserved value)"?
Are there any outside Clause 12?]
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Abhishek Patil <appatil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2023 16:34
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Hi All,
Thank you for the discussion during today's REVme call. We made some more progress on the topic but could not reach consensus on a mutually agreeable text.
After a few iterations between different members, the group seemed to have stabilized on the following text for the transmit side [replacement to line 36 page 574 in REVme D2.0]:
"In a field or subfield, values that are reserved for that field or subfield are not used for transmission."
The group came-up with the following text for the receive side [second sentence on line 36 page 574]:
"Upon reception of a reserved value in a field or subfield, the behavior is undefined."
However, there is a debate on whether or not we need to specify anything for the receive side. For instance, there are occasions where the behavior at the receiver is clearly defined (i.e., to ignore the reserved value) and therefore, it is incorrect to say the receive side behavior is undefined. Personally, I feel, we should delete the sentence and leave the behavioral aspects to the pertinent clauses (which is already the case at several instances in the spec).
I'd like to hear if there any further suggestions for the text on the transmit side and opinions on deleting the text for the receive side.
Regards,
Abhi
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Abhi,
thanks. I think your proposed text is good.
Kind regards
Stephen
On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 04:16, Abhishek Patil <appatil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi All,
TGm had discussed the proposed resolution for CID 3000 (DCN: 11-22/2208) during the January meeting but could not come to an agreement. This email is a follow-up to continue with the discussion and make progress towards a suitable resolution.
CID
Commenter
Pg/Ln
Section
Comment
Proposed Change
3000
Abhishek Patil
574.35
9.2.2
What is the purpose of the paragraph starting line 36? Per the previous paragraph (line 30), a reserved field/subfield is set to 0 by the transmitter and is ignored by the receiving STA. In addition, the 2nd sentence of paragraph starting line 36 seems to conflict with the receiver side requirement on line 30 (i.e., ignore vs undefined).
Either delete the paragraph starting line 36 or harmonize it with that on line 30.
Brief summary of the discussion (during the Jan meeting):
The first paragraph is meant to cover the case of reserved (sub)fields while the second paragraph (being modified) is intended to cover the case of reserved values. The proposal was to modify the second paragraph to clarify reserved values carried in non-reserved (sub)field. The group could not converge on a suitable text. Two alternatives were considered.
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9.2.2 Conventions[3000]
TGm editor: Please update the following paragraphs in this subclause as shown below:
Reserved fields and subfields defined in this clause are set to 0 upon transmission and are ignored upon reception.
NOTE 2—This applies to reserved fields and subfields in MAC headers. Reserved fields and subfields in PHY headers might be set to a nonzero value upon transmission, and might not be ignored upon reception.
Reserved field and subfield values are not used upon transmission.Upon reception of a reserved field or subfield value, the behavior is undefined.Proposed text: Reserved values are not used in non-reserved fields and subfields upon transmission. Upon reception of a reserved value in a non-reserved field or subfield, the behavior is undefined. Alternate text: In non-reserved fields and subfields, reserved values result in undefined behavior upon reception.
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Could you please review the proposed text and let me know if you have a preference or suggest an alternate?
Regards,
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