Re: Logout request

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Logout is referred to in several parts of the draft.
It is definitely not an error indication and it the text about what can follow and at what time intervals is quite explicit and long winded
in chapters 2, 6, and 9.

Julo

Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net> Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 04/29/2002 08:10 PM Please respond to Paul Koning

To:        ips@ece.cmu.edu         cc:                 Subject:        Logout request

I've seen some disagreement on how "logout request" is supposed to be
treated, and the spec is rather vague.  

Section 2.5.3.3 says:
  Logout Requests and Responses are used for the orderly closing of
  connections for recovery or maintenance. The logout request may be
  issued following a target prompt (through an asynchronous message)...

This suggests that an initiator should NOT treat a logout request as
an indication of an error, and certainly should not treat it as a
fatal condition.  Instead, the appropriate reaction, after logout, is
to log in again if the initiator wants to keep using the target.

Apparently, that interpretation is not the one everybody is using
today.  Could we get some words in the spec (here, or perhaps in
chapter 4) to indicate how the initiator should treat a logout
request?

                 paul