On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 01:53:35 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> >  - The addition to section 4.5.1 isn't quite correct.  Elsewhere we
> >
> > tell report senders not to assume different types of reports will be
> > treated differently, so I don't think there's any need for receivers to
> > update to do so.  I think the most that can be said is that receivers
> > ought to arrange for a reasonable default result if an unknown type is
> > encountered.
> 
> There issue is that we make it a MUST to accept all types listed in a
> registry.  How would an implementation do that?  There's no protocol to
> query the registry for new types, so it can't really be done live.  The
> IESG member is saying we need to explain to people what's involved in
> satisfying that MUST.

We don't really define accept.  If I "250 OK" to accept the message and then 
discard unknown types, that's a win from that perspective.  I probably 
wouldn't do it that way, but that's not inconsistent with the requirement.  I 
don't think it's necessary to have a list of all currently possible values to 
satisfy the requirement to accept all types.

Scott K
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