Re: [tig-diagnostics] Uploading icmp aup

Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net> Wed, 11 July 2012 18:09 UTC

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From: Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>
To: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:05:50 -0400
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I think that it is easier to say that ICMP should be used for X and for X only, than to list all of the things that ICMP should *not* be used for.

                                             Ron

P.S. BTW, you may be talking to the wrong person about this. The last time I was asked to formulate an AUP for the Internet, I quoted a highly inappropriate song from the Broadway play, "Avenue Q".


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melinda Shore [mailto:melinda.shore@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:59 PM
> To: Ronald Bonica
> Cc: Carlos Pignataro; tig-diagnostics@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [tig-diagnostics] Uploading icmp aup
> 
> On 7/11/12 9:51 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote:
> > In Section 3, you can briefly mention that ICMP should not be used as
> > a routing or network management protocol.
> 
> That mostly sounds reasonable.  This morning it occurred to me that a
> better summary might be that ICMP should not be used to install/
> configure state in network devices, but that's still pretty fuzzy
> around the edges.
> 
> Melinda