> (Note: In this message, I'm basically speaking just as an individual > in this list. I'll propose an action as a 2462bis editor after the > entire discussion; it may or may not be same as what I'm going to say > below) I think your approach to look at the two sides of the medal is very useful, but I don't find either argument (pro & con) very convincing at this particular point of time.
However, what I can clearly read from the discussion is that the definition of the use / function of the M/O bits needs an update. Including a reference to existing protocols would be useful to explain the use of the flags, for example. I would like to remind you that for example many DHCPv6 implementations are quite young and still need to evolve in terms of functionality (that includes the use of M/O bits). It would be great if we could postpone the discussion to a later time when we can actually see if those implementation can make use of the M/O bits in a way that makes sense. As the development of the implementation progresses, I'm sure that the number of scenarios where M/O bits are useful will increase. Baseline is, it would be good to postpone the deprecation discussion and at the same time update the definition of the use of the M/O bits. I can think of scenarios where M/O is useful but the mental picture of these is not clear enough yet to really make a point. Deciding upon deprecation or not would be premature at this point of time, IMHO. Cheers, Christian -- JOIN - IP Version 6 in the WiN Christian Strauf A DFN project Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster http://www.join.uni-muenster.de Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung Team: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Röntgenstrasse 9-13 Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-48149 Münster / Germany GPG-/PGP-Key-ID: 1DFAAA9A Fon: +49 251 83 31639, Fax: +49 251 83 31653 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
