Re: [tcpm] urgent data draft (draft-gont-tcpm-urgent-data-01.txt)

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Wed, 24 June 2009 02:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] urgent data draft (draft-gont-tcpm-urgent-data-01.txt)
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Thanks, that does clarify things.

Joe

David Borman wrote:
> Yes, the intention is to  change the definition.  It was my note, and I
> thought that's what I said:
> 
>> 2) Change the definition of the Urgent Pointer (defined in RFC 1122)
>> to match the definition on page 17 of RFC 793, which is what most
>> implementations use.
> 
> So, no ambiguity intended, we change the spec to match the implementations.
> 
>             -David Borman
> 
> 
> On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
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>> Fernando Gont wrote:
>>> Joe Touch wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm wondering about #2. It's worth noting that implementations don't
>>>> follow the specs, but I'm getting increasingly concerned about
>>>> continuing to publish docs that say "implementations don't follow spec"
>>>> without actually either saying "and the spec is hereby changed" or "and
>>>> implementations are noncompliant and should be fixed".
>>>
>>> Joe, you had agreed with #2 at the meeting we had in Minneapolis. What
>>> changed since then?
>>>
>>> P.S.: As there is no practical difference between "points to the last
>>> byte of urgent data" vs. "points to the byte following the last byte of
>>> urgent data", and since all implementations do the later, it does make
>>> sense to change the specs. You had agreed with this reasoning at MPLS.
>>> -- I'm now puzzled.
>>
>> I didn't see in Gorry's note anything about saying we were changing the
>> specs. As I said, I don't really care whether we change the specs or
>> declare the implementation incorrect in general. If we've already agreed
>> that this will be a standards track update to 1122, that's fine (I just
>> didn't see it mentioned in Gorry's note).
>>
>> In general, we should always *try* to take a stand when implementations
>> differ from the standard. This looks like a case where that's possible,
>> so I was just noting that we should do so.
>>
>> Joe
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