Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags

[Alain Durand <Alain.Durand at Sun.COM>]

Ok, what would break if we were to declare the O & M bit historic
and issue a BCP recommending not to set them in RA?

It is unclear to me what part of existing code would break....

	- Alain.


On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Tim Hartrick wrote:
> 	I believe that it is entirely too late in the life of this protocol
> to be removing these bits.  If there is in fact confusion over their 
> usage
> then the usage should be clarified.  The original intent of this 
> revision was
> to clarify portions of the specification which were not clear, not to 
> open every
> feature for the full-scale debate and revision.  There is running, 
> shipping
> code that makes use of these bits.  What, exactly, is the upside in 
> breaking
> that code?

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