Hesham, > => Exactly, IMHO the support for HAO is tied to > RO support which is a SHOULD anyway, so the HAO > should follow that.
Logically, you are inconsistant. As an example, RO is a should, protecting RO is a MUST. This set of mail exchanges have actually made me think that this is important functionally and that implementing HAO is important for security reasons and it is not unreasonable to insist all nodes implement it. John -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------