Re: A simple question

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> > I would be thrilled if we spent some time thinking about ICMP in
> > an architectural way - however beautiful it was before ICMP
> > black holing, what we have now isn't consistently usable today.
> > We're spending time on point solutions (Matt Mathis on non-ICMP
> > path MTU discovery as one example), but is this the best we can
> > do?
> I don't think we're likely to be able to dispense with ICMP.  Maybe we
> can find more ways to make it more trustworthy.  Or maybe we just need
> to discourage people from filtering it.
I don't understand why this is even a point of discussion. Next you hear
some people will like to globally filter TCP RST - will you rewrite TCP
to work without that?

Regards,
        -is

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