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Re: An RFC7169 use case (!)

2014-04-07 03:17:59

On 2 Apr 2014, at 18:17, Thierry Moreau 
<thierry(_dot_)moreau(_at_)connotech(_dot_)com> wrote:

It may me the first time that an April fool RFC is actually useful.

Not necessarily...

Geoff Huston and I wrote a draft a couple of years ago that repurposed the Evil 
Bit as an indicator that a packet has been through an address translator.

The purpose was to act as a tie-breaker for those cases when Happy Eyeball 
algorithms couldn't otherwise distinguish between paths.

Ray


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