Scott: > I'm never sure whether to respond to sophistry and rhetoric, but why not, > let's play:
my intention with this post was not to engage in sophistry, but to explain (or justify) the reasoning behind my proposal to remove RIP/RIPng, since you seemed to be asking for more details on that. i apologise if it came across as unnecessarily rhetorical, but i often find the easiest way to explain my reasoning behind something is by example. perhaps this is a personal flaw :-) in any case it sounds like you're content with routed being moved to a port rather than banished entirely. my assumption in the original mail was that this would happen anyway (assuming it at least 1 remaining user) but perhaps i wasn't clear enough about that.
