Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 4/1/2010 11:05 AM, Fred Baker wrote: >> So - does RFC 5841 update RFC 3514, or obsolete it? > > > Probably not. RFC 3514 is actually a protocol. RFC 5841 is not. > > A protocol needs to specify deterministic behavior by participants at > both ends of the exchange. Otherwise there cannot be interoperability. > > The new entry defines publishing labels. That is, its focus is on > conveying mood rather than worrying about the use of mood. At the > least, it might have suggested that a bored packet label should be > subject to a flood of packets in response, just to make the issuer's day > more interesting? This would have been easily avoided had this option been given a more typical April 1-type kind number, e.g., 258. I recall getting queries about how to support similar April 1 RFCs, since the indicator wouldn't fit in the intended field (port number 68000, protocol number 258, etc.). Simply using that kind of (in)sanity check could have helped avoid these issues... Joe
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