Re: #1132: Allowing IP addresses as path-identiites - Poll result

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

>> You've removed "path-keyword" - so what you're proposing is
>> different from what's specified in the current documents,
>> not just a different syntax.

> Actually I'm lost what the server folks here (Richard, Russ,
> Forrest) really want.

Between the various alternativesly currently being discussed, I have no
strong opinions.  I think they'd all likely work.  The only caveat is that
I think it would be useful to allow, however tagged or indicated, a server
to just always put diagnostic information into the Path for all peers
rather than requiring that all servers using the new Path format do Path
identity checking.

> Richard said what he sees in practice is the diag.MISMATCH-style, that's
> Charles's second variant (with a similar diag.SEEN).

Right, Diablo does this now and Andrew submitted a patch to INN to do this
as well, a long time back, which I haven't applied because I was waiting
for the working group to converge on a recommendation for how this
information should be formally represented.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>