> I might be totally wrong in this but I see that there are two
> contradicting statements in RFC1883 for IPv6. Can somebody please explain
The apparent discrepancy is reconciled by the robustness principle.
2.10. Robustness Principle
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be
conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
others.
This applies not only to TCP - see RFC 1812.
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