Hello Joel,

> I am also concerned that this is removing several features that the working 
> group has, up till now, deemed important.

I'm not sure I understand this comment. You mean the collision with 
draft-farinacci-lisp-crypto-00 ? (and other drafts which I may have missed)

Or do you mean that N/E/V must be zero when P=1 ?  How is this different from 
e.g. N/E must be zero when V=1 ?


Regards, Marc


On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:04:15 -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> I am very concerned about the compatibility behavior of this.
> If the sender is setting the P bit, and the next header, then he presumably 
> thinks that is useful to the receiver.  If the receiver is ignoring the P 
> bit, and ignoring the field occupied by the next-header, how will the 
> receiver know what the content is?  Are we assuming that the sender will 
> magically know what packet type the receiver expects, even though the 
> sender is capable of sending several different packet types?
> 
> I am also concerned that this is removing several features that the working 
> group has, up till now, deemed important.  If this gpe is important, then 
> we will have to ensure that we do not count on any of those features for 
> reliable operation.  If that is our intent, then the document really needs 
> to say so explicitly so that WG adoption actually represents agreement to 
> those constraints.
> 
> Yours,
> Joel

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