Re: compatibility of RFC 4666 to RFC 3332

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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Lyndon,

There were additional code points added to a number of fields
and the state machine was changed in an incompatible fashion,
particularly with regard to 'n'.

IMO the version number should have been incremented.

--brian

Lyndon Ong wrote:                     (Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:17:31)
> Hi Folks, 
> 
> There seems to be some confusion about this.  My understanding
> after checking with the editors is that RFC 4666, although it
> obsoletes RFC 3332, is still backwards compatible.  An implementation
> of 4666 should be able to work with an implementation of 3332
> and vice versa, thus there was no reason for a version change.  
> 
> The SSN and CIC were removed from Routing Key registration due
> to interoperability issues, but these were optional parameters
> in RFC 3332.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> L. Ong
> 
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