Re: [arch-d] [IAB] I-D Action: draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-04.txt

Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 06 November 2019 22:26 UTC

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From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:25:50 -0800
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Subject: Re: [arch-d] [IAB] I-D Action: draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-04.txt
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Hi Deborah,

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:15 PM BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <db3546@att.com> wrote:

>
>
> For me, the robustness principle has nothing to do with preventing new
> extensions on a protocol, it has everything to do with protecting existing
> deployments. The document's proposal "Choosing to generate fatal errors for
> unspecified conditions" may be appropriate for some protocols, it would
> cause a melt down of the network for other protocols. One of my working
> groups currently is doing a "fix" - and only because of the robustness
> principle, there have been no issues with current deployments.
>
> As Carsten says downthread, some of the applications of the robustness
principle are obviously good.  Some, not so much.  I think we all agree,
though, that maintaining points of extension is both good and, ultimately,
necessary if the Internet is going to continue to change and grow.  One
issue is that some of the points of extension get eaten up by poor
applications of the robustness principle.  If you reserve a code point but
ignore its use in deployments because it has no meaning, it can really
never have a meaning until a forklift upgrade arrives, as you can't tell
which bits ignore it and which use it.  Given our current rate of
ossification, that is a problem.

I don't know the situation you allude to above, and it may not apply
there.  If you can send text on how to distinguish the situation you see
and the doc describes, we'd be grateful.

regards,

Ted