Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 23 February 2017 08:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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On 02/22/2017 10:50 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
>     > With the difference that the standards clearly specify what the current
>     > state of affairs is.
> 
>     and now we need to make the wannabe document match what the state of
>     affairs is in networking.
> 
> 
> That doesn't mean "we've been violating the standards, so now the
> standards have to change to match what we've been doing, even if other
> parties are depending on the standards", does it? :-)

Oh, well... you said this exact words at the 6man wg meeting in Seoul,
when you were suggesting that we should allow EH insertion because some
folks had implemented and deployed code that was violating RFC2460.

Looks like you like to bend the rules depending on what you want to push
forward.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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