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



Hans Kruse wrote:
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but otherwise I _cannot_ see how the _content_ of the option could harm a device that does not want to deal with it.

If it interferes with congestion management elsewhere along the path, it can potentially damage every other packet stream. This is a *very* complex discussion of course.

   Brian


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