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Re: comments on version 2 of protocol draft



>>>>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:15:25 -0800, Rob Enns <rpe@juniper.net> said:

>> Consequently, my personal vote is that defaults be eliminated and
>> that all values, operations, options be required to be explicitly
>> defined.  For a computer, its not big deal; for humans, it adds a
>> lot of clarity.

Rob> I agree with this. Does anyone on the list have a problem with 
Rob> removing the default parameter values?

Well, since the XML encoding is already going to be a unreasonable
bandwidth explosion and we don't care about parsing speed of all those
extra parameters, why not?

[or, you could just include the parameters if you don't remember the
defaults and use them when you do remember...]


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