Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 01:50:42PM -0800, C. M. Heard:
On 2017-02-18 Philip Homburg wrote:
So the only purpose of a stronger text against inserting extension headers
would be to prevent IETF working groups from publishing RFCs that use
that technique.
That is not the only purpose -- some of us, at least, would like to believe
that stronger text will help to discourage practices that can have
demonstrably harmful effects -- but it is definitely an important purpose.
Stronger text is also amunition for operators and users to push vendors to
fix bugs (no matter the proto in question). we prefer the text to be
precise. if it breaks ptmud and ptmud is essentially mandatory ....
[ps thanks for digging in the ml archive]