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To: Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
Cc: Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>, Ietf-Provreg <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From: Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:23:48 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103200801470.32298-100000@loki.ar.com>
Sender: owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Pre-meeting notes

At 11:06 AM -0500 3/20/01, Rick H Wesson wrote:
>Unless you can be more specific about what has not been addressed in this
>area I think we are ok.

I do think the requirements document is okay with extensibility, the
definitions document is not.  What I had in mind for this design team is to
be set to analyze the protocol spec to make sure we maintain the ability to
be extensible.

I didn't mean to intone that the requirements aren't addressing
extensibility.  But I think that the words written (specificially in 7.5)
aren't strong enough to ensure that we are headed towards an extensible
protocol.  That being said, I believe the requirements document is okay as
is - because "extensibility" is not something you can measure/specify in
advance, especially in this case.

(In other words, I can't imagine a yes/no statement that, if yes, means
"it" is extensibile, no "it" is not.)

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