Re: [Int-area] WG Adoption Call: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 09:09:54AM -0700, Joe Touch wrote:
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> > On Aug 24, 2018, at 8:24 PM, Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> > Of course. Will take a decade to get ubiquitously deployed, but
> > neither IPv4 nor IPv6 will go away, only the problems with fragmentation
> > will become worse and work if we do not have an exit strategy like this.
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> > If we don't try an exit strategy like this, we will just get what
> > Joe said, the complete segmentation of the Internet with more and
> > more L4 or even higher layer proxies
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> FWIW, what I said was that *this exit strategy* would lead to the complete segmentation of the Internet and its consequences.

I can't rmember i saw a good explanation why on the thhread and neither in
the draft - aka: Why we still need fragementation to keep the internet
from falling apart". I like 4821 and think its the way to go also for other
transports.

Cheers
    Toerless
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> Joe
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