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Re: [homenet] The minimal Babel profile for Homenet

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 30 October 2015 20:24 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to "STARK, BARBARA H" <bs7652@att.com> message dated "Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:08:05 -0000."
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Subject: Re: [homenet] The minimal Babel profile for Homenet
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STARK, BARBARA H <bs7652@att.com> wrote:
    >> SHOULD is actually pretty strong.  It doesn't mean, "implement if you
    >> like" (that's MAY).  It means, implement it, unless you have a serious
    >> reason why you can't.
    >> 
    >> For instance, an IPv6 only IoT gateway probably has no interest in
    >> IPv4 if it can get IPv6.  MUST would make that gateway non-compliant.

    > Maybe conditionally mandatory? If the router can be used for routing

That's what SHOULD is *for*
If you are concerned it won't get implemented, then any weasel room you leave
will be exploited.  At that point, the market gets to decide.


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