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Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 05 September 2019 14:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)
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On 5/9/19 16:46, Tim Chown wrote:
>> On 5 Sep 2019, at 14:05, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have not changed my position with regards to header insertion.
>> I'm arguing that you should argue technical merit on actual proposals.
>> Instead of trying to make RFC documents apply as laws and slap people over the head with those...
> 
> You made me look to see if I could find the heaviest RFC. It seems to be RFC 5661, at 615 pages, which I think would be 1.7kg if printed double sided A4.  

Jesus!  And I thought the HTTP spec was already too long! :-)

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