Capwap Mailing List: Re: Reserved bits and fields

[Bob O'Hara (boohara) (boohara]

Not really, remember the receiver of an implementation that is unaware
of the use of the reserved field to fix a bug in the protocol will still
ignore it (and still suffer from the hypothetical bug in the protocol).

 -Bob
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson, David [mailto:dnelson [at] enterasys.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:01 AM
To: capwap [at] frascone.com
Subject: Re: [Capwap] Reserved bits and fields

Bob O'Hara writes...

> Without the transmitter requirement, small
> protocol problems found only after wide deployment 
> might be able to be fixed by using a previously 
> reserved bit or field.

Without revising the protocol version number?  Without revising the
specification?

Seems pretty hazardous to interoperability, IMHO.

Regards,

Dave
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