Re: [Int-area] [EXTERNAL] Side meeting follow-up: What exact features do we want from the Internet?

"touch@strayalpha.com" <touch@strayalpha.com> Wed, 08 December 2021 21:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] [EXTERNAL] Side meeting follow-up: What exact features do we want from the Internet?
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Not sure why - you asked, AFIACT, how BCPs for link design affect things that don’t design links (NATs).

I confirmed that they don’t.

Was there a different question?

Joe
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> On Dec 8, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> wrote:
> 
> Joe, I am having a hard time seeing your response as anything other than a
> non-answer to my question.
> 
> Fred
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: touch@strayalpha.com [mailto:touch@strayalpha.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2021 12:11 PM
>> To: Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
>> Cc: Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com>; int-area@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Side meeting follow-up: What exact features do we want from the Internet?
>> 
>> Hi, Fred,
>> 
>>> On Dec 8, 2021, at 11:52 AM, Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Joe, RFC3819, Section 2 in particular gives BCPs for setting link MTUs.
>> 
>> NATs and tunnels don’t have control over the link MTUs over which they operate; the user doesn’t have control over how those are
>> composed or interact.
>> 
>>> By my read, the
>>> only links that would set an MTU smaller than 576 should therefore only occur at the
>>> network edges; not somewhere in the middle of the network.
>> 
>> Tunnels create an tunnel MTU (which is the link MTU, thinking of the tunnel as a link) by fragmenting at the ingress and reassembling at the
>> egress.
>> 
>> That happens anywhere in the network. While it PRESENTS an effective MTU of the tunnel as a link, it doesn’t operate as if it avoids
>> fragmentation.
>> 
>> Joe
>