Re: I-D.ietf-v6ops-cpe-simple-security-09

[Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com>]

On 3/21/10 9:29 PM, james woodyatt wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2010, at 12:18, Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com> wrote:
> > On 3/21/10 6:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > > So, I'm wondering what's really wrong with:
> > >
> > >   REC-41  Gateways MUST provide an easily selected configuration option
> > >       that permits operation in a mode that forwards all unsolicited
> > >       flows regardless of forwarding direction.
> > The problem is the default, which is not to permit this.
> > >
>
>
> That problem is inherited from RFC 4864, which this draft is not 
> intended to reverse.
Why not, if that is the current consensus? We've reversed the text of 
IETF standards track documents before, much less Informational documents 
that are not a standard of any kind.

- Mark
> -jhw
>
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