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Re: about violation of standards

Kerry Lynn <kerlyn@ieee.org> Thu, 18 April 2019 19:30 UTC

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From: Kerry Lynn <kerlyn@ieee.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:30:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: about violation of standards
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:59 PM Alexandre Petrescu <
alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> In private conversation this debate happened:
>
> is an implementation that uses fe80:1::2 address on an interface a
> violation of standards? (RFC 4291 does not allow for '1' to be there).
>
> My point of view is that as long as that mplementation is widely used,
> that is not a violation of standards.  Rather, the situation makes it
> that that standard is not in agreement with implementations.
>
> Alex
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Which came first, the standard or the egg?

Kerry

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