Re: WG action: 1 week to discuss LL18: Host with LL address MUST ARP for all addresses

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:35, erik guttman wrote:
> Please send feedback to the mailing list on the suggested change to Section
> 2.6 as described in the reopened issue LL18.  Discussion is encouraged
> until Sep 10, when a consensus call will be made regarding the issue.

[Repeat comment]

In...

   "If the host has no appropriate
   routable source address, then it MUST ARP for the destination address
   and then send its packet, with a link-local source IP address and a
   routable destination IP address, directly to the destination on the
   same physical link."

s/MUST/SHOULD/

I don't think we can mandate a node not to drop the packet. In addition,
ARPing for everything does not work with multihoming. There needs to be
an escape hatch to allow multihomed stacks to implement something
appropriate. MUST is too strong.

	MikaL