Hello, We have actually designed a large-scale system making use of the M flag as it was a large part of RFC 2462 and we were not aware that IETF would be considering deprecating it. Please take this into consideration in your discussions.
Regards, Brian Russell Systems Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alain Durand Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:19 AM To: JINMEI Tatuya / ?_-?'B?A Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags Jinmei, I agree with your analysis, except that I'm not so much worried about breaking somebody's assumption in designing an hypothetical client dealing with the O/M bits. The definition of those bits was obscure in 2462 anyway. I would be more worried if this was to result in demonstrated operational problems. I honestly believe that there won't be any as deprecating O & M will end up being equivalent to today's most common practice where those bits are not set. Nothing breaks today under those circumstances, so I do not see what should break tomorrow if we were to deprecate those 2 bits! Of course, if someone could point to a real case scenario where this would be a problem, that could change my opinion... - Alain. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
