On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Seth Blank <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you put arc=fail in an AR and then the next hop ignores and strips the >>> AR (per spec), what good is it? >>> >> >> None, but what good is the broken chain? If all you're doing is avoiding >> reprocessing, that seems pretty minimal. >> > > A final evaluation status has merit, but it's not avoiding reprocessing, > it's transmitting and signing your name to a definitive position that the > chain is dead as you saw it. > > An ARC chain is a chain of custody, and if custody is lost, that status > shouldn't be a hot potato - it should be committed to the chain. And then > per the logic in the spec, no one else touches the chain after the chain is > declared dead. > I think I agree here. The absence of a "cap" on the end of the chain is ambiguous, while a signed "cv=fail" is not. -MSK
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