Re: RFC 2460 issue

[Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@kolumbus.fi>]

Suresh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi Alain,
> 	Since the hop limit is analogous to TTL in IPv4 the answer should 
> be no. But you will not find the answer in RFC 2460 as this was not 
> covered in RFC 791. This should be covered in the node requirements draft 
> (draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-06.txt) that John is editing. I 
> checked the draft but it did not have a section regarding this(analogous 
> to RFC 1122 section 3.2.1.7). Maybe this can be added to that draft. I am 
> curious as to why you would want to do that though.
I think we have agreed now that the node requirements document is
not a place to list all updates and deficiencies of existing RFCs --
those existing RFCs should be updated instead.

--Jari



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