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Re: [Edm] Please review draft-iab-use-it-or-lose-it-01

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Mon, 19 July 2021 19:31 UTC

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:31:42 +0200
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Edm] Please review draft-iab-use-it-or-lose-it-01
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 06:42:57PM +0100, Stewart Bryant wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 19 Jul 2021, at 18:37, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> > 
> >  "IP's version field was
> >   rendered useless when encapsulated over Ethernet, requring a new
> >   ethertype with IPv6 [RFC2462], due in part to layer 2 devices making
> >   version-independent assumptions about the structure of the IPv4
> >   header.”

> If vendors with a large footprint ignore standards all bets are off.
> The same applies to open source but there is even less pressure for them to abide by the standards.

I think the problem is less "ignoring standards" but implementation bugs
by developers implementation fix and release latency and deployment latency
of operators.

That is all business as usual and overwhelming, so i am not sure one would
need to talk about obnoxious behavior, like knowingly "ignoring" stuff.

Cheers
    toerless

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