Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> Just to clarify, mandatory to implement doesn't mean you have to write the 
>> code.   It means the functionality has to be present in the deployed 
>> implementation so that two communicating partners can be configured to use 
>> it.   
> 
> Um, where is that defined? Is there a BCP that says that?
> 
> I don't think a protocol spec can say that feature X cannot be ifdeffed.
> It can say that a protocol must be capable of X and that implementations
> must therefore be capable of X. But if you tell implementors that they can't
> ifdef unused stuff when building images for highly constrained nodes, I
> don't think they will take you seriously.

Maybe slightly off-topic for homenet, but +1000 for constrained node
networks.

Grüße, Carsten

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