Re: Confirmation to advance: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-05

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 24 May 2019 20:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: Confirmation to advance: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-05
To: Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-6@u-1.phicoh.com>, ipv6@ietf.org
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 25-May-19 02:00, Philip Homburg wrote:
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> The IPv6-only flag is an additional feature. Before accepting such a 
> feature it is worth asking what happens if the feature gets enabled
> accidentally or maliciously.

Yes. That's why these questions have been addressed in the draft
since many versions ago.

   Brian