Re: Fwd: Re: [tcpm] Re: draft-ietf-tcpm-ecnsyn-03.txt backwards compatibility

Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> Fri, 04 January 2008 18:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [tcpm] Re: draft-ietf-tcpm-ecnsyn-03.txt backwards compatibility
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> The draft talks of itself as "a modification to RFC 3168". Will ECN+
> be marked as "UPDATES RFC3168" in the RFC index?
> 
> At least that will help ensure anyone who implements based on the
> RFC index will not have a choice between RFC3168 and ECN+

Without having considered this for more than a few seconds, I think it
is reasonable to think this will be labeled as an 'update' to RFC3168.
If someone thinks that would be somehow bogus, please speak up.

allman



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