Re: [tcpm] draft-eggert-tcpm-historicize-00

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Tue, 29 June 2010 17:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] draft-eggert-tcpm-historicize-00
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Hi,

On 2010-6-25, at 16:07, Scheffenegger, Richard wrote:
> Of course, if RFC1146 could be extended to include algorithms which
> actually "violate" some of the specs of it, but maintain using the same
> TCP options with a new algorithm codepoint, that would be fine with me.
> 
> But this would probably ask for a new RFC obsoliting RFC1146 anyway (in
> effect making it again historic :) ).

yes, that was my thinking too. I don't think we can fix RFC1146 in a way that is backwards compatible, so we might as well make it historic and then decide if we need a new piece of work in this space.

Lars