Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:37:01 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, "'Andrew Reilly'" <areilly@bigpond.net.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <200109271637.f8RGb1k00323@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:49:25 MDT." <200109270449.f8R4nP771287@harmony.village.org>
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> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:49:25 -0600 > From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > In message <200109242043.f8OKheR16906@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes: > : > Are IANA/IETF/Internet standards EVER applicable to what goes on inside > : > our computers? Or just to the data crossing our Internet interfaces? > : > (Not rhetorical - I'm wondering.) > : > : No. This is explicitly stated in an early RFC (although I have no idea > : which one any more). If it does not leave a system, no standard RFC is > : relevant. That is one reason that the handling of 127/8 is limited to > : the statement that it should not appear as a destination of any packet > : leaving the system. > > Well, to be pedantic, there are several RFCs that describe host > progamming APIs. Those are relevant to what happens inside the host > :-) Yes, many RFCs do describe APIs and lots of other things that are limited to a host, but none are standards track RFCs. All are informational or BCP or something of that sort. RFCs can be on most any subject (and some are very far field), but none of those are standards track (Proposed Standard, Draft Standard, Standard, ...). R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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