Re: [babel] Shepherd Review of draft-ietf-babel-source-specific-04

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Wed, 10 April 2019 15:54 UTC

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>> I see.  So your current behaviour can be described by
>> 
>> MUST drop the enclosing TLV and MAY drop the whole packet
>> 
>> May the MUST be a SHOULD, or must it be a MUST?

> If it's a SHOULD, what is one supposed to do instead if deciding not to
> drop?

It's not required to detect the situation -- we're in nasal daemons land.

-- Juliusz