RE: RFC 2460 issue

[john.loughney@nokia.com]

Hi Jari,

> 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.

I agree.

John

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