>No, I know you didn't.

>  |     i suggested we should refuse new incoming connections (TCP SYN).

>Yes, that is what I am arguing against.

>The line of reasoning seems to be

>       if we accept a connection to a deprecated address, we may
>       have to open a connection from a deprecated address later.
>
>       we're not allowed to open a connection from a deprecated address
>
>       hence we should not accept connections to deprecated addresses

        FTP story was just an example.  independent from the FTP story, i am
        - pointing out that the current text does not give any guidance
          to incoming TCP SYN case, and
        - we should drop incoming TCP SYN to deprecated addresses.

itojun
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