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

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Wed, 10 April 2019 21:13 UTC

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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

>>> 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.

That sorta feels under-specified to me?

-Toke

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