>>>>> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:25:52 -0500,
>>>>> "Soliman, Hesham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sorry for the late response I was out of the office.
>> > => This can be added to the text at the beginning of 7.2.,
>> which discusses this issues.
>>
>> Hmm, so the behavior corresponding to the following entry
>> (shown again
>> just to be accurate) is not currently described in the draft:
> => Not in the main text, which is why I suggested above that we can add it
> to section 7.2.
I see. As I said in the previous message (see also below), we should
first make a consensus about whether this is to be added. Then, if
the result is positive, we should explicitly add the corresponding
text to 7.2 (in general, the appendix should be a summary of the main
text, IMO).
(snip)
>> I
>> believe it makes more sense to discard the bogus packets silently as
>> described in the body of the draft (Section 7.2.4) rather than taking
>> a specific action like sending an ICMPv6 error message.
> => I don't think that's a good way to handle it, but the current text
> inherited from
> 2461 agrees with you. I don't think it breaks backward compatibility to
> mention this
> in the appendix as an optional behaviour (sending the ICMP error). Are you ok
> with
> having this as an optional behaviour in the appendix? others?
I don't have a strong opinion on either way (whether or not including
this feature). As you said, it may help in some cases (e.g., an end
host may be able to give up connecting to a non-compliant remote host
faster). But since this may require a change to the existing
implementation, I'd like to see an explicit consensus about the
additional behavior (i.e., 'no objection' would not suffice).
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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