In this case 'the idea' was "we would like an option code point
assigned".
if that's all there is to the proposal, it should be rejected
out-of-hand without discussion.
I'd have thoughth the discussion should have been about whether there was an intention of deployment by the requestor (the request isn't
gratuituous) and whether there are enough codepoints available for future use (the
request, if fulfilled, wont prevent other IETF-developed ideas from getting their
own codepoints). The decision process should have stopped when the answer was
"yes" on both counts. At least, that's how it seems to me.
those are both valid concerns, but relatively minor concerns compared to
the potential for poorly designed IP options to have an adverse effect
on Internet interoperation, at any layer from 3 up.
Keith
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