Re: I-D draft-petersson-forwarded-for-00.txt

On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 12:02:55PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> forwarded-for = 1#( hop *[ ";" parameter ] )
> hop = address | pseudonum
> pseudonum = token
> address = ...
> 
> I.e., you don't have to make the header syntactic mush just to make it clear that it doesn't always have semantic integrity.
> 
> One of the reasons for allowing extension parameters, btw, is to allow someone to sign the hops if they want to.

That's a good point. We could also imagine that some people might want
to specify an incoming interface name, an AS number or whatever.

Regards
Willy