I would say that it if a node does not support this new option, it will probably not support any new functionality using the extended bit field. I am rather neutral on whether adding such text is necessary.
Regards, Brian Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Sorry to be slightly late... > > I note that 2461bis says that unrecognized options MUST > be ignored. So that means that back-level implementations > will ignore any flag bits sent with this new option. Does > that have any side-effects that should be noted? > > Brian > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
