Subject: Re: Comment on RFC 1981-Path MTU Discovery for IPV6

From: Jack McCann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:41:26 -0400 (EDT)

>Referring to item 5.3, we think that the timestamp value need not be set
>to "Reserved".

The text in question is a suggestion, not a requirement.
The use of a "Reserved" timestamp value is just one possible
implementation of PMTU aging.  Other implementations are
also possible, as you have seen.  FYI this text was taken
from RFC 1191.

- Jack

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