[Asterisk-Dev] IAX2 RFC and retries.

[Steve Underwood]

Johnathan Corgan wrote:

> Steve Kann wrote:
>
>> I think that asterisk _does_ set the timestamp of an ACK to be equal 
>> to the timestamp of the frame it's acknowledging, but it's redundant.
>
>
> This is the sort of thing a formal protocol spec should clear up. 
> (Bravo to the developer writing RFC--you'll improve a lot of peoples' 
> productivity!)

Was this said in jest, or was it a serious comment? If the latter, I 
guess you haven't worked with too many specs. :-)

>
> The timestamp does seem to be redundant as a way of correlating the 
> ACK with the original full frame.

Why? The sequence number is entry you are expected to use.

>
> Tim--is the text above from the first or second draft of the RFC?


Steve