The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[James Watt <james@ca.newbridge.com>]

Roy Spitzer writes:
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|James,
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|I agree with the philosophy that the incorporation of fields are not necessary
|unless there is a proven need.  It is unforturemate that some of the suggested
|fields were placed in the network provider's code because it was deemed
|necessary for support of unbalanced traffic that the user could offer.  If
|it is not configuable by network management in the FR DTE, the feature
|cannot be offered.
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My recolletion is that, at the time, there were fielded products with this
capability - these products were built to service provider requirements.  
It is unfortunate that the service providers as equipment vendors for things
that ended up unused, but that is life.

In fact, we may find that these capabilities went unused in RFC 1604.  At
that point, we would deprecate the objects in the successor to RFC 1604.

Regards,
-james
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