[AFS3-std] RxOSD claim on 2 structure members

Simon Wilkinson simon@sxw.org.uk
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:12:49 +0100


On 8 Jun 2009, at 03:05, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The problem is that, because these fields are not and
> were not standardized at all and existing software would ignore them,
> people may have used them.

The interesting thing here is that this approach pretty much makes all  
of the unused or spare protocol fields unusable. I can completely see  
the justification for it, but it does significantly reduce our  
flexibility, both now and in the future.

S.