Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too!

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 08/01/2016 15:35, Jeff McAdams a écrit :
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>> As such, a memory-savvy and reduced clock computer Host may benefit from
>> not implementing longest-match and still connect to the Internet.
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>> I wanted to say that a Host - as defined in RFC - does not implement
>> longest-match.
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>> A host as people call a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet does implement
>> it though.
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> So, basically, you're saying that, to at least a vanishingly small
> rounding error, there are no "RFC Hosts" on the Internet today.
 >
> So what's your point?

Maybe we should find that small rounding error - what OS does not 
implement longest-match and yet connects to the Internet?

Second, until we ifnd that small rounding error, we may stop talking 
about Hosts, and declare the Host RFC historic.  Or update it with a 
sentence saying that Hosts too must implement longest-match.

Alex

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