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Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:40:12 +0100
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Hi Brian,

On 01/14, Gix, Brian wrote:
> > +	uint32 SequenceNumber [read-only]
> > +
> > +		This property may be read at any time to determine the
> > +		sequence number.
> > +
> 
> Is there a use case justification for exposing this value?  Why an Application would need this?

There are 2 use cases:
 - debugging and monitoring RPL behaviour
 - we'd like to add another API to increase the sequence number - this
   is useful when you Import() a node from another database and would
   like to bump its sequence number up to a previously known value, so
   that the rest of the network can talk to it

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