Re: [netmod] operational knobs

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:50:26AM +0100, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> 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.

Yes, because the WG did choose to forbit this sort of extension and
this was a political decision, not a grammar problem.

/js

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