Re: [Gen-art] Re: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-29 Thread Ralph Droms
Yeah. I have to agree with James and Brian: in retrospect, the M/O bits are useless and further discussion at this point is even more useless. - Ralph On 11/29/06 4:58 AM, Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MO bits were defined long before we had DHCPv6 in place. And they

RE: [Gen-art] Re: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-29 Thread Durand, Alain
; Thomas Narten Cc: Brian Haberman; Bob Hinden; William Allen Simpson; General Area Review Team; Erik Nordmark; ipv6@ietf.org; Soliman,Hesham Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Re: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt Yeah. I have to agree with James and Brian: in retrospect, the M/O bits

Re: [Gen-art] RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-27 Thread Scott W Brim
I only have one question left. Are anycast addresses taken from a special pool? I didn't think so. Is it possible for me to first be told about a prefix by router A, and then an anycast address that is within that prefix by router B? Since anycast addresses have the override flag set to 0,

Re: [Gen-art] RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-25 Thread Scott W Brim
Thanks, Brian. That's the sort of thing I was hoping to see. If the principles ever have time I am still curious about the technical questions in the review (which the SHOULD brouhaha buried). swb ___ Gen-art mailing list Gen-art@ietf.org

Re: [Gen-art] RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-25 Thread Scott W Brim
On 11/25/2006 12:01 PM, Hesham Soliman allegedly wrote: Hi Scott, Are you referring to comments other than the SHOULD issue? I responded to all of your comments in my first email. If there is anything unclear please let us know. Hesham OK. I'll take it offline for the moment. Thanks.

RE: [Gen-art] RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-22 Thread Soliman, Hesham
Hi Spencer, It's not that specifications need to explain all possible reasons for not following a SHOULD - I agree with your statement that successful protocols are used in amazing ways - but I do think listing ONE possible reason as justification for a SHOULD instead of a

Re: [Gen-art] RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-11-22 Thread Mark Townsley
Bob Hinden wrote: Gentlemen, This document is being recycled at Draft standard. It has been previously reviewed, IESG approved, RFC-Editor edited, and published at Proposed and Draft Standard. It is very widely deployed. Any issues regarding the meaning of SHOULD, MUST, etc. have been