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RE: Deprecating ICMP Source Quench messages

"Dan Wing" <dwing@cisco.com> Tue, 30 November 2010 02:45 UTC

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From: Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com>
To: 'Fernando Gont' <fernando@gont.com.ar>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tsvwg-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:tsvwg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Fernando Gont
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:54 PM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: 'tsvwg'
> Subject: Re: Deprecating ICMP Source Quench messages
> 
> Hi, Dan,
> 
> Thanks so much for your feedback! Please find my comments inline...
> 
> >> FWIW, the document is so short that, even if you have not read it
> >> before, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to skim through
> it.
> >
> > I read it.  Looks good.
> >
> > Might also want to mention that ICMPv6 didn't bother defining
> > Source Quench.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> BTW, some have argued (off-list) that this document should also update
> RFC 1812 such that the "SHOULD NOT generate ICMP SQ" is changed to
> "MUST
> NOT generate ICMP SQ".
> 
> Thoughts?

My 'line' for MUST-versus-SHOULD is that interoperability is harmed
if a MUST is violated.  A stack compliant with
draft-gont-tsvwg-source-quench
isn't harmed (or helped) by receiving a source quench.  So, I don't
see much value in changing it to MUST.

-d


> Thanks!
> 
> Kind regards,
> --
> Fernando Gont
> e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar || fgont@acm.org
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