On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:42:15AM +0900, Job Snijders wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:36:40PM -0500, Jeffrey Haas wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:15:56PM +0900, Job Snijders wrote: > > > Some might wonder, why "Cease"? > > > > > > The beauty of using a new Cease subcode, is that the NOTIFICATION > > > message type already allows extra data to be attached, so for most > > > implementations it will be very simple to bolt what is specified in > > > draft-snijders-idr-shutdown-00 on top of their existing code. In some > > > cases we are looking at just a handful of lines. > > > > As I commented elsewhere, changing subcodes ends up being painful from a > > conformance standpoint. I would honestly not recommend a new subcode. > > I don't follow, it seems you recommend to not change the behaviour of an > existing subcode (conformance), but you also recommend against getting a > new subcode? Can you clarify?
No new subcodes. Add the text to the NOTIFICATION Data section of existing subcodes, when it makes sense and that Data section isn't otherwise specified. -- Jeff _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
