On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> 
> 
> Take a tour through the eleven parts of Section 7 of RFC5451, and then 
> Appendices A and C.  They provide all kinds of warnings about misinterpreting 
> the data provided, which amounts to pretty firm implementation advice, and 
> identifies ways you can shoot yourself in the foot.  But none of those 
> sections are normative.  (Actually there are two SHOULDs in 7.4, but in 
> retrospect they shouldn't really be there.)
> 
> That's what I'm advocating here: The normative stuff defines the core 
> mechanics of the protocol itself, and the informative stuff explains why it's 
> done that way, detailed implementation advice including stuff about other 
> layers, and how one should (and shouldn't) interpret the output.

+1

Cheers,
  Steve


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