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[STDS-802-11-TGBI] What happens when a non-AP MLD changes EDP epoch group?



Dear, 
I have several CIDs asking to describe what happens when a non-AP MLD changes its group, maybe after receiving an EDP Epoch Request frame.

In my understanding, the EDP Epoch Response frame should be received well in advance so that the non-AP MLD is able to compute all its FA parameters. Then it will wait until the time of the next epoch change and apply them. first question is what happens if the response frame arrives so that the non-AP MLD does not have time to change its parameters? it aborts? disassociate?

I have also noticed that the calculation of the FA parameters, which is the following:

EDP FA block =KDF-Hash-Length( KDK, "EDP CPE frame anonymization", n)

Will result on the same parameters for the same user in the same relative n, is not it?
So if we have one user in EDP epoch 1 with relative number 10, which has been there during epoch with relative number 9, and changes to a new epoch group 2 which next relative epoch number is 7, in two epochs (relative epoch number 9) its EDP FA block in epoch group 2 will be the same as in the epoch group 1, relative number 9. 
Is my interpretation correct? is this what we want?

Thanks


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