RE: Last Call: <draft-ietf-intarea-gre-mtu-02.txt> (A Widely-Deployed Solution To The Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Fragmentation Problem) to Informational RFC

"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Fri, 10 April 2015 08:00 UTC

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Subject: RE: Last Call: <draft-ietf-intarea-gre-mtu-02.txt> (A Widely-Deployed Solution To The Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Fragmentation Problem) to Informational RFC
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I have read this document and consider it a useful addition to the 
material on GRE that will help new implementations arrive at an
interoperable solution.

Trivially I wondered whether there was a need for 
  3.3.2.3.  Tunneling GRE Over MPLS

Thanks,
Adrian

> The IESG has received a request from the Internet Area Working Group WG
> (intarea) to consider the following document:
> - 'A Widely-Deployed Solution To The Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
>    Fragmentation Problem'
>   <draft-ietf-intarea-gre-mtu-02.txt> as Informational RFC
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