Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't accept multicast traffic with scop 0

From: Dan Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:49:13 -0600

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 22:21 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 14:52 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:48:35 +0100
> > 
> > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:48:51PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > >> +	/*
> > >> +	 * RFC4291 2.7
> > >> +	 * Nodes must not originate a packet to a multicast address whose scop
> > >> +	 * field contains the reserved value 0; if such a packet is received, it
> > >> +	 * must be silently dropped.
> > > 
> > > Just nit-picking: The field is actually called scop without e, as pointed out
> > > by three erratas to RFC4291. :)
> > 
> > That's funny because I added the 'e' to your patches while applying
> > them, it just looks completely stupid to refer to this things as
> > 'scop'.
> 
> It seems to be a long Unix tradition to creat names with trailing silent
> vowels removed; this is hardly uniq.

You had to buy vowels from Pat back then, and people were stingy with
their hard-earned money.  And then if you got the vowel wrong it was no
longer your turn.  So understandably people were reluctant to use vowels
much.

Dan