Thomas,
Thomas Narten said the following on 11/14/2006 11:27 AM:
Enke Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I am curious how you concluded that "the specific extensions are of
little value to most users".
They are of value only to users invoking traceroute, and have some
level of clue. I don't doubt ISPs would find ASN info useful. I, as an
end user, at home, doubt this has any value to me.
But I was referring more that the vast majority of these ICMP messages
will be sent as part of non-traceroute traffic, and thus go places
that don't need the information and can't use it. (Will the also be
included in time exceeded messages associated with TCP?)
This is a good point. Those objects are optional, but from implementation
angle, it mostly should apply to UDP packets above certain ports.
thanks.
- Naiming
As long as it can be demonstrated that including such information
causes no harm, I suppose it's not a big deal.
But I do worry about at what point we say "no" to inserting
information into ICMP that has only limited value.
Thomas
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