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

Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Tue, 03 September 2019 16:07 UTC

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From: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:07:15 -0700
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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 Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 8:58 AM Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:

> On 3/9/19 18:41, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fgont@si6networks.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 7:50 AM
> >> To: Templin (US), Fred L <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>; Joe Touch <
> touch@strayalpha.com>; Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in>
> >> Cc: Joel Halpern <joel.halpern@ericsson.com>;
> draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile@ietf.org; int-area@ietf.org; The IESG <
> iesg@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 17:33, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
> >>> Why was this section taken out:
> >>>
> >>>> 1.1.  IP-in-IP Tunnels
> >>>>
> >>>>    This document acknowledges that in some cases, packets must be
> >>>>    fragmented within IP-in-IP tunnels [I-D.ietf-intarea-tunnels].
> >>>>    Therefore, this document makes no additional recommendations
> >>>>    regarding IP-in-IP tunnels.
> >>>
> >>> Tunnels always inflate the size of packets to the point that they may
> exceed
> >>> the path MTU even if the original packet is no larger than the path
> MTU. And,
> >>> for IPv6 the only guarantee is 1280. Therefore, in order to robustly
> support
> >>> the minimum IPv6 MTU tunnels MUST employ fragmentation.
> >>
> >> Isn't that an oxymoron? If fragmentation is fragile, if you need
> >> something robust, you need to rely on something else....
> >
> > IPv6 fragmentation is not fragile - only IPv4 fragmentation is fragile.
>
> * RFC7872.
> * https://blog.apnic.net/2017/08/22/dealing-ipv6-fragmentation-dns/
>
> These seems pretty fragile to me. YMMV, though.
>

Fernando,

That's fragmentation in DNS, not tunneling which is what Fred's question is
about. Besides that, Fred's point is still correct-- fragmentation is not
fragile for IPv6, it's broken, non-conformant implementations that are
fragile.

Tom


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