Re: Deprecation of ICMP Source Quench messages (draft-gont-tsvwg-source-quench)

Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> Fri, 14 January 2011 14:57 UTC

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> Realistically, if there isn't an RFC, 2 years from now someone will
> come and re-write Fernando's document and ask to have an RFC
> published and we'll waste more time on the same discussion, so I'm
> in favor of blasting this through the process and getting it
> published as long as there's rough consensus on it.  We publish
> plenty of similarly useless book-keeping RFCs without controversy.

I agree with this and with Fred's notion.  It isn't a problem, but this
document is completely benign and shouldn't "waste time".  Nobody has
brought up anything but process issues (i.e., nobody is arguing for
reacting to SQ) so lets just call rough consensus and move on.

allman