@@ -205,8 +205,23 @@ can be made unpredictable. Implementations can vary their behavior by including
205205no grease values, one grease value, or multiple grease values for a given protocol
206206extension point.
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208- TODO : Discuss the implications of how often grease values are used; using very
209- infrequently and very frequently can both be ossifying
208+ How consistently an frequently to use grease values is a choice that implementations
209+ and deployments need to consider and weigh against several factors.
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211+ Deployments of greasing should consider how they expect errors exposed by
212+ using grease values to be noticed and measured.
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214+ If grease values are sent too infrequently, so that errors due to sending
215+ grease values blend in with the noise of other errors, it is likely that
216+ no one will notice failures, thus defeating the purpose of greasing.
217+ When grease values are sent more frequently, they will be noticed more.
218+ However, if grease values are sent too consistently, receiver implementations
219+ might end up special-casing grease values.
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221+ The patterns for sending grease values can be made more effective by
222+ coordinating between devices sending the values. One example of coordination
223+ is having a "flag day" where implementations start sending grease values
224+ broadly, and measure to see where errors occur.
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211226# # Don't Handle Grease Values as a Special Case
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