Subject: RE: Fwd: Request To Advance: <draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-05.txt>

From: "Soliman, Hesham" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:09:10 -0500

> > => Not in the main text, which is why I suggested above 
 > that we can add it
 > > to section 7.2.
 > 
 > I see.  As I said in the previous message (see also below), we should
 > first make a consensus about whether this is to be added.  Then, if
 > the result is positive, we should explicitly add the corresponding
 > text to 7.2 (in general, the appendix should be a summary of the main
 > text, IMO).

=> Agreed.

 > 
 > (snip)
 > 
 > >> I
 > >> believe it makes more sense to discard the bogus packets 
 > silently as
 > >> described in the body of the draft (Section 7.2.4) rather 
 > than taking
 > >> a specific action like sending an ICMPv6 error message.
 > 
 > > => I don't think that's a good way to handle it, but the 
 > current text inherited from 
 > > 2461 agrees with you. I don't think it breaks backward 
 > compatibility to mention this 
 > > in the appendix as an optional behaviour (sending the ICMP 
 > error). Are you ok with
 > > having this as an optional behaviour in the appendix? others?
 > 
 > I don't have a strong opinion on either way (whether or not including
 > this feature).  As you said, it may help in some cases (e.g., an end
 > host may be able to give up connecting to a non-compliant remote host
 > faster).  But since this may require a change to the existing
 > implementation, I'd like to see an explicit consensus about the
 > additional behavior (i.e., 'no objection' would not suffice).

=> That's fine. I'll send a separate email to ask if people agree with adding 
the ICMP part as an optional feature. 

Hesham

 > 
 > 					JINMEI, Tatuya
 > 					Communication Platform Lab.
 > 					Corporate R&D Center, 
 > Toshiba Corp.
 > 					[email-masked]
 > 

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