Re: [OPSEC] Ted Lemon's Discuss on draft-ietf-opsec-dhcpv6-shield-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Sun, 08 February 2015 00:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OPSEC] Ted Lemon's Discuss on draft-ietf-opsec-dhcpv6-shield-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On Feb 7, 2015, at 7:00 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, I don't think you should remove this sentence and the normative reference
> to RFC 7045:
> 
>   [RFC7045] requires that nodes be
>   configurable with respect to whether packets with unrecognized
>   headers are forwarded, and allows the default behavior to be
>   that such packets be dropped.

What does that have to do with DHCPv6 shield?   I guess I don't mind if this is included, but it seems unnecessary.