[rbridge] multicast pruning in TRILL

[Silvano Gai]

I agree with Joe.
In general we should use only MAY or MUST, not SHOULD

-- Silvano

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> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 8:48 AM
> To: Radia Perlman
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> Subject: Re: [rbridge] multicast pruning in TRILL
> 
> 
> 
> 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