Re: [Pppext] warning suggestions for draft-bberry-pppoe-credit

Karl Fox <karlfox@columbus.rr.com> Fri, 09 December 2005 13:33 UTC

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From: Karl Fox <karlfox@columbus.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Pppext] warning suggestions for draft-bberry-pppoe-credit
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:32:30 -0500
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Can't we work the work "broken" in there somehow?

:-)

Karl

On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:17 AM, James Carlson wrote:
> William Allen Simpson writes:
>> While I, for one, would not! Merely describing the protocol  
>> deployment
>> environment is a part of the specification, not a WG warning about  
>> the
>> poor design.
>
> I had intended to integrate that text into the previous warning, not
> replace, and was just word-smithing the subset to get the commentary
> on the original usage case right.  Something like this:
>
>   "The PPP Extensions Working Group (pppext) has reservations about
>   the desirability of the feature described in this document.  In
>   particular, it solves a general problem at an inappropriate layer
>   and it may have unpredictable interactions with higher and lower
>   level protocols.  The techniques described in this document are
>   intended for use with a particular deployment technique that uses a
>   PPP termination separated from a radio termination by an Ethernet,
>   and that has radio-side flow control for a slower PPP-only link to
>   remote nodes.  Implementors are better advised to avoid split
>   termination and use traditional IP routing instead."
>
> -- 
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