Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-icmpv6-filtering-recs to informational

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> No, why would we point out to people that our protocols are clever enough to 
> not require any filtering? Or use the same name for the same field in 
> different documents? That's way too much trouble with all those RFCs we have 
> to write that no one in operations reads anyway because they're too long and 
> too hard to read, and which are too hard to find out that they exist in the 
> first place.

This is what section 4.3.3 is about.  I grant you that it doesn't seem 
to spell out our protocol design wisdom :-), but it does mention 
TTL=255 checking.

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