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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-intarea-ipv4-id-update-05.txt> (Updated Specification of the IPv4 ID Field) to Proposed Standard

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Mon, 13 August 2012 09:59 UTC

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On 8/13/2012 2:45 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> Again, this doc is about updating the IPv4 ID specification in RFC791 -
>> which has not yet been updated.
> 
> But, the way you update rfc791 requires updating rfc2460,
> rfc2765 and their implementations, for which there is no
> consensus.

It certainly does not.

> That is, though your draft claims to "more closely reflect
> current practice" and "more closely match IPv6", the way you
> update rfc791 does not "reflect current practice" nor "match
> IPv6".

It does - it doesn't reflect the errors in IPv6-IPv4 translation, which
is not "IPv6".

Joe

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