Re: [babel] Murray Kucherawy's No Objection on draft-ietf-babel-source-specific-07: (with COMMENT)

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Thu, 05 November 2020 11:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [babel] Murray Kucherawy's No Objection on draft-ietf-babel-source-specific-07: (with COMMENT)
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Murray Kucherawy via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> writes:

> Murray Kucherawy has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-babel-source-specific-07: No Objection
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> What's an example of when one might deviate from the SHOULD in Section
> 4?

Only thing I can think of is that if someone already implemented a
disambiguation like that suggested in the second bullet, and the
underlying platform then adds native support, one could conceivably
continue using the disambiguation instead of switching to the native
support.

The Linux kernel is an example of this: in ancient times there was no
native support for source-specific routing, but it was possible to use
the generic policy routing mechanism to achieve this. When the native
support was added, it came with a new UAPI, so a routing daemon would
have to change to support it, while the old policy-based way would still
work. Or maybe an implementation wants to support ancient kernels with
the same code and keeps using the policy-routing based way; it would
likely be somewhat painful, but in principle I suppose it could work.

-Toke