Re: RFC 2434 term "IESG approval" (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

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Hans Kruse wrote:
But the refusal of a code point is not effective, and in fact counter-productive (since the option will indeed be deployed, you just won't know what code point it self-assigned).
that's not true in general.  each situation is different.

the alternative - to blindly assign codepoints even to poor proposals - would encourage proliferation of poorly designed extensions to IP.
we need to allow IESG to use some discretion here.

Keith

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