Hi,
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
That sounds good to me. Why do you want (c) to be removed? Is it because there is no support for it (or) is there some other reason why reason (c) should not be implemented.
There is not much support for it, it is too ambiguously defined to be useful, and because it's not sufficiently well supported, the hosts cannot know whether the address was chosen to make the diagnostics easier, or just chosen somehow.
In short, it's not proven to be useful and much implemented, and because of that, it can't be used in any reasonable way by the hosts. On the other hand, it incurs code complexity and makes the selection of the source address less deterministic.
-- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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