[Int-area] Alissa Cooper's Discuss on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-15: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

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DISCUSS:
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Thanks for writing this document.

Section 6.1 says:

"Developers MAY develop new protocols or applications that rely on IP
   fragmentation if the protocol or application is to be run only in
   environments where IP fragmentation is known to be supported."

I'm wondering if there should be a bit more nuance here to make the
recommendation clearer. Do we think there is a case where an application
protocol developed in the IETF will be known to only run in environments where
fragmentation is supported? If we don't think developing such a protocol would
be in scope for the IETF, then I'm wondering if that case should be called out
explicitly with a stronger normative requirement.


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COMMENT:
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Section 3.8.2: If there is any chance we think this situation might improve
before this RFC-to-be gets obsoleted one day, I might suggest:

s/The security policy described above is implemented incorrectly on
   many consumer CPE routers./The security policy described above has been
   implemented incorrectly on many consumer CPE routers./

Section 3.9: s/Another recent study/Another study/