Re: Mutli6 meeting in Vienna

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

On torsdag, maj 15, 2003, at 13:54 Europe/Stockholm, Brian E Carpenter 
wrote:

> Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> ...
> > > - can we break applications?
> > if break=modify, we might be forced to.
> >
> > > - can we break transport protocols?
> > see previous.
> >
> > > - can we break autoconfiguration?
> > yes.
> >
> > > - can we break IP?
> > yes
> >
> > > - can we break IPsec?
> > isn't that transport?
> On all these, please see goals 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 of the goals 
> (ex-requirements)
> draft. If we don't meet those goals (carefully defined backwards
> compatibility with existing, shipped router and host code) the solution
> will be a non-starter. So certain things can be "broken" but only 
> subject
> to real-world compatibility constraints with shipping code.
Agreed.

- kurtis -