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Re: [OPSEC] Last Call: <draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-06.txt> (Recommendations on the Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers) to Informational RFC

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Mon, 26 November 2018 22:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OPSEC] Last Call: <draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-06.txt> (Recommendations on the Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers) to Informational RFC
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:49:49 -0800
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Mike,

From your email:

> On Nov 26, 2018, at 6:46 AM, C. M. Heard <heard@pobox.com> wrote:
> 

. . . .

> NEW:
> . . . .
> 
> 3.5.5.  Advice
> 
>   Operators should determine according to their own circumstances
>   whether to discard packets containing unknown IPv6 EHs.
> 

From reading the email thread, this sentence seems to me to be a good summary of the draft.

I wonder if this is something the IETF needs to tell operators.    Based on the discussion, I suspect it is not.

Bob

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