At 1:25 PM +0200 11/26/09, Tero Kivinen wrote: >Paul Hoffman writes: > > - Remove the numbers from every table > >I would rather keep the numbers for those tables which are really >needed for implementing the protocol.
And here we disagree completely. >I hate when I am implementing something and reading the RFC, and then >suddenly I notice that I need to go and fetch some url somewhere to >find the actual numbers, even worse when I am doing that in airplane >or similar where I do not have network connectivity... In this case, you only need to fetch a single page from IANA for all the tables. If you did that for any of the tables, you would have it for all of them. It does not feel appropriate to optimize for the case of someone coding IPsec without Internet access for a few hours. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
