[rbridge] multicast pruning in TRILL

[Joe Touch]

Radia Perlman wrote:
> Re: Is multicast pruning a MAY or MUST:
> 
> I'm not sure there's been enough opinion voiced to have a consensus on this.
> I'd be happy with MAY or SHOULD, since it really it just an optimization.

IMO, optimizations should be expressed as MAY.

To say "SHOULD" is to say that implementations that do not implement the
optimization should have a good reason for not doing so. I don't think
the presumption should be tilted that way.

Joe

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Joe Touch
Sr. Network Engineer, USAF TSAT Space Segment

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