Re: Update to <draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-07.txt>

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Bob Hinden wrote:
> To clear what we hope is the last IESG "Discuss" comment on this document, 
> the AD's plan to add a note after the third paragraph in the Introduction 
> section (that starts with "This document describes an optional extension to 
> Neighbor Discovery Router Advertisement messages.....") as an RFC-Editor 
> note.  The text is:
>
>  Note that since these procedures are applicable to hosts only,
>  the forwarding algorithm used by the routers (including hosts
>  with enabled IP forwarding) is not affected.
>
> We wanted to pass this by the working group to see if any objects to this 
> change.  We think the additional text is fine.

This seems like a good clarification in general, but it wouldn't hurt 
if it was grounded more strongly on how it follows that routers don't 
use these procedures.

AFAICS, the routers don't use this stuff simply because they're not 
supposed to listen to RAs (but having exact quote & reference would 
be good).

-- 
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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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