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

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Wed, 10 April 2019 11:41 UTC

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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

>> Dropping the enclosing TLV is no problem, skipping the source TLV would
>> need patches... For reference, Bird currently does the following[0]:
>
> 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?

-Toke