On Dec 4, 2018, at 8:46 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Nobody deprecated the flags that require HBH options to be processed or dropped if not supported. > > Intentionally. If a forwarding node is transparent to HbH options, > it is not looking at those flags. If it is looking at HbH options, > it will obey those flags. Why is that a problem? What exactly does ‘transparent to HbH options mean’ if not ‘not supported’? In that case, the flags have exactly no meaning anywhere. But they’re not deprecated. That makes no sense at all. Joe