> > Why don't we just drop unknown fields? What we're talking about is a node
> 
> I agree. We could have a possible screw-up situation when a node passes
> on an unknown field, when it was really ment to decrement it, or sign it
> or something. The bad value could cause problems at the next node which
> does understand the field.

I thought this is part of the advantage of having fields in the form of
X.Y.Z=<stuff>

So routing only needs to know how to handle the X field.  Fields should
only be dropped if X is unknown.

-Larry


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