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Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Thu, 05 September 2019 14:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law
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Joel M. Halpern wrote on 05/09/2019 14:11:
> Part of the reason we write restrictions and requirements into RFCs is 
> so that we do not have to repeat the arguments.
> 
> If the proponents of the insertion have arguments for why it is now 
> okay, they need to make those arguments.  And they need to make sure 
> that the discussion is taken to the relevant working groups.  The burden 
> should not be on those who are asking that attention be paid to existing 
> RFCs.

+1 on this.  there's been extensive discussion about this issue on 6man, 
and the onus is on the authors of 
draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming to justify this change in 
behaviour in IPv6 specification rather than the other way around.

Nick

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