On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 11:19, Daniel Suchy via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote: [...]
And I think RFC on internet is something like law. Will we apologize for breaking the law? What about other norms, industry standards? Should we solicit for standards to be followed? Or is it normal to expect that the standards are followed?
We're often tasked not to micromanage NCC. But that assumes that the standards are (simply) met. Or what's wrong with the fact that I point out the obvious ignorance of the standards? And that's obvious here.
RFCs are not "something like law". RFC 2026 (The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3), which is still part of BCP 9 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp9) notes that the Internet works through "voluntary adherence to open protocols and procedures defined by Internet Standards." If there are good operational reasons for being more restrictive than is allowed for in RFC 5341 then we should not disregard those reasons for the sake of strict compliance with a very generous standard. Kind regards, Leo