On 5/16/18 2:20 PM, James Cloos wrote:
> The sixteen bit field harms no one, and when defined and used provides
> significant benefit to many.
It is one of the peculiarities of the IETF (and engineers
in general, I guess) that when we sit down to design a
protocol most people will start talking about data formats,
etc. rather than protocol semantics. Allow me to suggest
that that's a mistake, and that data formats are secondary
to the behavior we expect from a protocol and to the data
needed to support that behavior. Don't make that mistake
here.
And again, nobody has said that they intend to implement
the proposed mechanism - indeed, when asked, people have
said that they won't. So I'm not really clear on the
benefit.
I'm compromising as a process matter (this needs to get
done) and because it's clear that nobody else will.
Melinda
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