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Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Mon, 29 October 2012 16:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop
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On 10/29/2012 9:18 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 29/10/2012 15:08, Joe Touch wrote:
>> How does that differ substantively from RFC 4821's advice? See esp. Sec.
>> 8 of that doc, which seems just as accurate for the current situation.
>
> Joe,
>
> I have never thought that 4821 was specific enough, because it leaves
> quite a bit of the recipe open. The application writer just wants to do
> open/send/receive/close and have somebody else take care of this stuff.
>
>      Brian

It has very specific advice in Section 8. I don't see much this WG can 
recommend beyond that until a few standards-track RFCs are revised, and 
that seems beyond the scope of this WG.

Joe

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