Hello Jurgen and Carsten:

I'm fine with an alternate. Any suggestion? Would, say,  "original", work 
better?

Pascal

-----Original Message-----
From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:c...@tzi.org] 
Sent: mercredi 21 février 2018 19:38
To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de>
Cc: ops-...@ietf.org; draft-ietf-6lo-rfc6775-update....@ietf.org; 
i...@ietf.org; 6lo@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Opsdir telechat review of draft-ietf-6lo-rfc6775-update-11

On Feb 21, 2018, at 10:07, Jürgen Schönwälder 
<j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> 
> - What is the 'legacy 6LoWPAN ND specification'? I found out later


legacy | ˈlɛɡəsi | 
  noun (plural legacies) 
    an amount of money or property left to someone in a will. 
    • a thing handed down by a predecessor: the legacy of centuries of neglect. 
  adjective Computing 
    denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but 
is difficult to replace because of its wide use. 


The marketing term “legacy” is used a lot by people who want to sell you their 
newest snake oil.

If you find “legacy” in a technical document outside the above narrow technical 
sense, this generally raises warning flags in people that have been around for 
a while.

Since the updated 6LoWPAN-ND is not snake oil, we should avoid sending this 
signal of non-competence.

(It appears here this is just about “previous version of the present 
specification”.)

Grüße, Carsten

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