Re: [netmod] operational knobs

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Juergen Schoenwaelder" <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>
> Cc: "NETMOD Working Group" <netmod at ietf.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [netmod] operational knobs
...
> This is really off topic, but RFC 1157, RFC 1901, and RFC 3412 all use
> "ANY -- e.g., PDUs". Yes, it is not ANY DEFINED BY but if people would
> have wanted to add create/delete operations, the grammar would not
> have been the show stopper.

The "ANY" in the envelope was just a hack to allow an encrypted payload.
The elements of procedure require it to be treated as a parse error if it
doesn't match the grammar for "PDUs".  Putting anything else there
would still require it to be treated as a new protocol version.

Randy