Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Tue, 03 September 2019 21:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
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On 4/9/19 00:02, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
> Fernando,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fgont@si6networks.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 1:49 PM
>> To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>; Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>; int-area@ietf.org; IESG <iesg@ietf.org>; Joel Halpern
>> <joel.halpern@ericsson.com>; draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile@ietf.org; intarea-chairs@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
>>
>> On 3/9/19 23:33, Tom Herbert wrote:
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> I agree with Fred. Note, the very first line of the introduction:
>>>
>>> "Operational experience [Kent] [Huston] [RFC7872] reveals that IP
>>> fragmentation introduces fragility to Internet communication".
>>>
>>> This attempts to frame fragmentation as being generally fragile with
>>> supporting references. However, there was much discussion on the list
>>> about operational experience that demonstrates fragmentation is not
>>> fragile.
>>
>> Discussion is not measurements. Do you have measurements that suggest
>> otherwise?
>>
>> We did separate measurements, with different methodologies, and they
>> suggest the same thing. You can discuss as much as you want. But that
>> will not make fragmentation work.
>>
>>
>>
>>> In particular, we know that fragmentation with tunnels is
>>> productively deployed and has been for quite some time. So that is the
>>> counter argument to the general statement that fragmentation is
>>> fragile. With the text about tunneling included in the introduction I
>>> believe that was sufficient balance of the arguments, but without the
>>> text the reader could be led to believe that fragmentation is fragile
>>> for everyone all the time which is simply not true and would be
>>> misleading.
>>
>> "fragile" means that it fails in an uncceptably large number of cases.
>> ~30 failure rate is not acceptable. ~20% isn't, either.
> 
> What if we fragment the payload packet instead of the delivery packet?
> Wouldn't that give a 0% failure rate?

Sure. At which point you are using ip fragmentation in a limited domain,
and that's *not* the case this document is addressing, right?

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