Hi Ryan, Good point about including the whole sentence; mea culpa! :^\
>On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:09:34PM -0500, Tim Enos wrote: >> In section 4.2, IMO it would seem good to see a brief justification of >> the statement: "filtering based on the presence of any >> Routing Headers on IPv6 routers, regardless of type, is strongly >> discouraged." > >In this sentence, is "regardless of type" intented to apply to Routing >Headers, or IPv6 routers? That said, the "regardless of type" ambiguity that you point out isn't any less so when the entire paragraph is read. > >I'm concerned that this paragraph is getting quoted without the previous >part of the sentence: "Where filtering capabilities do not facilitate >matching specific types of Routing Headers..." Is that an indication of >how it will be interpreted? Not on my part. Admittedly my error in not including the previous part of the sentence. Even so, it seems to me that if a router only has the requisite filtering capabilities in software (i.e. without hardware dedicated to the function) its CPU could get pinned. > >-Ryan Best Regards, Tim Enos Rom 8:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
