I'm not in a campaign to promote ECN, or anything... I'm saying that ISOC
web site is not reachable if you enable ECN, which RFC793(standard) or
RFC3168(proposed Standard) talk about.
I don't want to talk about what is a standard or what is not... What is
compliant or not...
Will there be anybody to volunteer and fix the routers leading to ISOC web
site, mailing lists, e-mail addresses and so on?
This is what my message is all about. Please IETF members in Washington DC,
Area, please give a call to ISOC and offer some help...
This is embarrassing, that's all....
Cheers.
Franck Martin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary E. Miller [mailto:gem(_at_)rellim(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2002 3:02
To: Christian Huitema
Cc: ietf
Subject: RE: ECN and ISOC: request for help...
Yo Christian!
Actually, RFC 3168 has nothing to do with it. The issue is RFC 793.
RFC 793 is a "Standard", not a "Proposed Standard"
RFC 793 lists the bits later used by ECN as "Reserved". Computer programs
are supposed to ignore "Reserved" bits unless they really know what
they are doing.
If a router treats bits in the header as required by the STANDARD RFC
793 then RFC 3168 will cause no harm. I do not have a copy of Baker
handy, but I bet it agrees.
RGDS
GARY
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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Christian Huitema wrote:
So, if you are on a campaign to promote ECN, then maybe you should first
try to promote this specification to the next standard level... You may
also want to take a stab at revising the "Requirements for IP Version 4
Routers"; the last edition, RFC 1812 by Fred Baker, dates from June
1995.