Re: [arch-d] Fiddling with IP packets in the network, IPv6-style (Fwd: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 5/9/19 04:09, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> On 05/09/2019 01:47, Fernando Gont wrote:
>> But given this is an architecture list, I wonder if anybody has a say on
>> the topic? (including the IAB).
> 
> I don't "have a say" but I do have a question...
> 
> Given this is a WG document in a chartered IETF WG, I'm
> unclear why you're asking the IAB/arch-discuss. I mean,
> if the draft is out of the WG's charter or something,
> then raising that with the chairs and then responsible
> AD etc would be the path to follow. So I'm puzzled as
> to why you think IAB members ought spend time on this
> (given that I, and I guess other IAB members likely
> start out as ignorant when it comes to spring stuff;-)

Besides procedural issues, the ultimate implications of this is that
we're formally introducing middle-boxes that fiddle with packets in the
middle of the network.

Isn't this within the kind of stuff the IAB has interest on?
If so, better to tackle this now, than to publish an RFC5902-style
document when the cat is already out of the box.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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