Re: [Idr] WG adoption requested for draft-hares-idr-update-attrib-low-bits-fix-01

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 14 March 2013 21:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] WG adoption requested for draft-hares-idr-update-attrib-low-bits-fix-01
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> I am not sure if we need to clarify the meaning of "sent" because one 
> implementation mistakenly confined its meaning to a subset. There have 
> been numerous uses of "send as 0 by the sender, and ignored by the 
> receiver" for a reserved field in various protocol specs.  If we were to 
> march down this path, the amount of work would be endless.

you are the only one suggesting revising old documents

randy