Re: [Int-area] Warren Kumari's Yes on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-15: (with COMMENT)

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Fri, 09 August 2019 17:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Warren Kumari's Yes on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-15: (with COMMENT)
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Tom,

> On Aug 9, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As the document highlights the problems of fragmentation are caused by
> nonconformant middlebox implementations. There is nothing inherently
> wrong with the fragmentation and end hosts don't a problem with it.
> IMO, this is just one example of (some) middleboxes arbitrarily
> breaking end to end protocols. I am hopeful that document will also
> trigger work to start fixing fix broken middlebox implementations.
> 

I certainly hope so.  It’s certainly a big problem for the IETF if any new protocol is constrained by the worst middle box implementation.

Bob