Robert Elz writes: > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:56:26 -0800 (PST) > From: Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | I sure see a difference. If my stack does that for me > | I always have the option to cd /usr/src/linux/net/ipv6 > | and make it stop doing that; YMMV. In a router, I stop > | having that option. > > If your router does it, and you don't want it to, you reconfigure the > router, or if that's not possible, you replace it. If it isn't your > choice to change that, then you're probably attempting to defeat the > policies of your local net.
Um, no. I don't want my telephant's local policy -- which is largely to be as inflexible as possible -- to effect end to end semantics. I also don't want them to install net nanny's or other intelligent network junk either. > | I can. It's the slippery slope to MIDCOM. > > I have learned to largely ignore slippery slope arguments. They're > mostly FUD. By all means, ignore away. Lots of people think that it's a bunch of FUD about NAT's too. They're by and large completely ignorant. > | If we *really* want to preserve options here, > | let's incoprorate Christian's suggestion that > | we save a couple of bits out of the field which > | define the sematics of the flow lable. > > Are you paying any attention to what is being suggested? Really? > What I have been describing ie *exactly* what is in their draft > (as it stands now, before any input from the SLC meeting, or this > discussion on the list has had a chance to affect it). Yes, yes, big deal. They wanted to support first hop rewrite, it got a negative reaction and from what I can tell they're not wedded to that piece. Do you actually disagree, or are you just being argumentative? Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------