> From: sob@xxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Bradner) > > > Yes, but if you're a firewall that stepped into a temporal stasis box > > before 3168 was published, you're still thinking that the bits are > > reserved, > > woe be to new applications through such a firewall Yes, such junk no doubt has worse defects than having been built by idiots who can't understand the difference between "reseved for now" and "must be zero forever." Or perhaps charletans who want their marks to install new versions of their malware every few months...or weeks...or days. Vernon Schryver vjs@xxxxxxxxxxxx P.S. Don't mind me. I'm just peeved because some large cable modem providers seems to be following the "technical" advice of trade rag espurts and filtering all UDP packets above port 1024. Why 1024?--I've no idea that's not an insult to whomever "thinks" it.