Yes, that makes sense to me, not knowing too much about it. I found an interesting article about the various failure modes of token ring, and this is one (along

Yes, that makes sense to me, not knowing too much about it. I found an interesting article about the various failure modes of token ring, and this is one (alongside the Captured or Corrupted token problems): (ii) If Token is lost: To deal with such situations, it is the responsibility of Monitor to generate new Token. Monitor will wait for Max Token Return Time and if the token is not received then it will generate a new Token.