RFC 7112 on Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains

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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

        
        RFC 7112

        Title:      Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header 
                    Chains 
        Author:     F. Gont, V. Manral,
                    R. Bonica
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       January 2014
        Mailbox:    fgont@si6networks.com, 
                    vishwas@ionosnetworks.com, 
                    rbonica@juniper.net
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 15897
        Updates:    RFC 2460

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7112.txt

The IPv6 specification allows IPv6 Header Chains of an arbitrary
size.  The specification also allows options that can, in turn,
extend each of the headers.  In those scenarios in which the IPv6
Header Chain or options are unusually long and packets are
fragmented, or scenarios in which the fragment size is very small,
the First Fragment of a packet may fail to include the entire IPv6
Header Chain.  This document discusses the interoperability and
security problems of such traffic, and updates RFC 2460 such that the
First Fragment of a packet is required to contain the entire IPv6
Header Chain.

This document is a product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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