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Re: [v6ops] WG Doc? draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 29 March 2016 00:15 UTC

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On 3/28/2016 5:12 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Yes. It's a bug in RFC2460 that this ambiguity arises.

I took it as a feature. IMO, the idea of a chain enables this feature,
and I don't think it should be so quickly dismissed as potentially useful.

I appreciate that not everyone agrees, though.

Joe

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