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Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-00.txt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Mon, 25 March 2013 14:31 UTC

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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:47:05AM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:

> > If something is seriously flawed, it can be deprecated or even made
> > historic and you start a second attempt. All this is possible.
> 
> This all too heavy-weight, so we shall be forced to various kludges
> and workarounds instead, and the elegance and readability of the
> modules will suffer from this cruft. The *-no-zone types are an
> example.

This is how the IETF works. We care about interoperability and hence
changing the semantics of published definitions is a no go.

And once again, I strongly disagree with your notion that *-no-zone
types are 'kludges'.

/js

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