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multiple layers of derivation or resolution, such as DNS service resolution and DNS hostname resolution.  4.3. Implementations should sort the branches of the tree of connection

Reviewer comments:
Several small updates, mostly to clean things up a bit, and align property names and such.
NAME - I think you're wrong: my understanding (and also the way the text is written - otherwise we'd have to change it in the API draft) was that Connection Properties can (and should) also be set on Preconnections, to give as much input as possible for Connection establishment. In the API draft, the Selection Properties in Section 5.2 can only be used on Preconnections: you can't ask for congestion control after establishment. You can't say that you'd rather have multistreaming support after establishment. But that doesn't exclude Connection properties from being usable earlier. Required minimum checksum coverage could influence choosing UDP-Lite vs. UDP. Bounds on Send or Receive Rate could influence the interface choice. The capacity profile could influence various things (and no, there isn't a matching Selection Property now - there is a per-Message override). So... I think that either you're wrong, or I'm missing something and the API draft heavily lags behind a decision that was made. I hope not!
NAME The API drafts says: I interpret this as only the Selection Properties influence selection and the Connection properties are used to further configure the connections according to user preferences. Otherwise what is the difference between them?
If you interpret it as you do, I think the text isn't clear enough (indeed it isn't super clear - in particular, "eventually established" is misleading IMO). Though, note that it says that Connection properties can also be used later. Regarding the difference between them: Selection Properties only make sense for Preconnections.
NAME - sorry lost this thread. But I saw that you have started cleaning up some Connection properties that had mixed Connection and Selection properties up in the API draft. Does it mean that we are now in synch and agree that only Selection properties are used in the selection and Connection properties are used for configuration (both during establisment and also after the connection setup).
NAME the other PR means nothing about what I said here: it only tried to address issue which is about a wording inconsistency in a specific property. You say that Connection properties can also be used during establishment - if you agree with allowing this, then why not allow to configure them as early as possible and allow them to influence selection? What's bad about having more information available that can guide the selection process?
NAME the problem is that the Connection properties are not expressed in a way suitable for selection. If they should also be used for Selection they would have to be reworked to be of type Preference. Otherwise I do not know what they mean for selection. What does it mean if I pick say a particular connection group transmission scheduler? Is it required or preferred? Most connection properties also do not look very useful to me for selection so in case there are some we need I think it would be simpler to just define a matching selection property.
NAME we're only discussing whether it's allowed to use them as additional input or not. I agree, some (like the scheduler choice) don't seem useful, but some do... generally we may not have good guidance on how they should be used by an implementation, but giving the system freedom to use as many inputs as possible is probably a good thing. Regarding the type, require/prefer//ignore/avoid/prohibit obviously works fine for a "wishlist" of boolean character: having something, or not having it. The selection properties are generally like that - except "Interface Instance or Type" and "Provisioning Domain Instance or Type" which are, well... wishlist-collections. Consider the capacity profile. Surely configuring this early can be useful input - e.g. if someone picks low latency / interactive, you may even want to put this traffic on a specific network interface! But if you'd want to make a copy of the capacity profile as a "proper" selection property, how would you do it? Apply require/prefer/ignore/avoid/prohibit for each of its values? Then I could say "prefer" low latency/non-interactive but "avoid" low latency/non-interactive, which would surely be odd. Apply the qualifier to the whole thing? Then it's about, e.g. "avoiding" to use a capacity profile at all. That's odd as well. I think it's in the nature of the current selection properties that they merely say "I want to be able to do this, and this is how important it is to me", which is different from configuring something. That's also why, as written, they simply wouldn't work for later connection configuration. Connection properties really are about configuring something, but I still say that being able to use them as early input is good. I agree that the implementation isn't super clear as they don't come with a require/prefer/... etc. qualifier, but then we just offer some freedom to implementers.
NAME I just pushed a commit that updates the selection and connection properties text, removing "connection" almost everywhere, but adding a disclaimer in the beginning that says that connection properties should be configured as early as possible because they can influence decisions made by the implementation, and "In the remainder of this document, we only refer to Selection Properties because they are the more typical case." Frankly I'm not sure this is better... but it does remove most of the "selection and connection" double mentions that you pointed out.
Fixed up branch building and resolved merge conflicts. I'll merge this in later today before the posting deadline.
Cool thanks! Sorry if I messed something up
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Thank you for updating this – looks good! just needs s/send-params/msg-properties/ and merging

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multiple layers of derivation or resolution, such as DNS service resolution and DNS hostname resolution. <ins> For example, if the application has indicated both a preference for WiFi over LTE and for a feature only available in SCTP, branches will be first sorted accord to path selection, with WiFi at the top. Then, branches with SCTP will be sorted to the top within their subtree according to the properties influencing protocol selection. However, if the implementation has cached the information that SCTP is not available on the path over WiFi, there is no SCTP node in the WiFi subtree.  Here, the path over WiFi will be tried first, and, if connection establishment succeeds, TCP will be used.  So the Selection Property of preferring WiFi takes precedence over the Property that led to a preference for SCTP. </ins> 4.3. Implementations should sort the branches of the tree of connection