On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 00:46, Leo Vegoda <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:20 AM William Hilsum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Some do this... but, RFC3021 is just a RFC - please correct me if I'm
> wrong, but, I don't think it is in any official specification.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by that. It is a Standards Track document
> with a status of Proposed Standard.
>
> The IETF rarely gets the tuits to move stuff from Proposed Standard to
> Standard but that doesn't mean protocols documented in them aren't
> de-facto standard. That said, there's requirement to implement RFC
> 3021, as far as I'm aware. It's your network, so feel free to use /30s
> if that makes things better for you and your customers.
>

And, unless I'm mistaken, the entire Internet protocol stack is
standardised only via the RFCs, so if it's not The Standard then nothing
is.

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