Subject: RE: markers

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:36:31 -0500

>Why was the proposal to use the urgent pointer dropped?

Here's its tombstone.  --David

From:	Allison Mankin [[email-masked]]
Sent:	Monday, December 04, 2000 5:26 PM
To:	[email-masked]
Cc:	[email-masked]
Subject:	IESG review of IPS use of URG Pointer

The IESG discussed the IPS Urgent Pointer proposal Thursday during its
bi-weekly teleconference.

The unanimous view was that the use of the TCP Urgent Pointer for this
proposed function is not consistent with well-established TCP semantics.
Since the IESG specifically ruled out modifications to Internet transport
protocols when approving the IPS charter, the IESG will not approve an IPS
protocol document that specifies use of the TCP Urgent Pointer in this
way.