Re: [Int-area] Discussion about Section 6.1 in draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Thu, 05 September 2019 22:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Discussion about Section 6.1 in draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile
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Tom,

> On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:53 PM, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 11:29 AM Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Based on the discussion, I would like to propose to see if this will resolve the issues raised.   It attempts to cover the issues raised.
>> 
>> The full section 6.1 is included below, but only the last sentence in the second paragraph changed.
>> 
>> Please review and comment.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 6.1.  For Application and Protocol Developers
>> 
>>   Developers SHOULD NOT develop new protocols or applications that rely
>>   on IP fragmentation.  When a new protocol or application is deployed
>>   in an environment that does not fully support IP fragmentation, it
>>   SHOULD operate correctly, either in its default configuration or in a
>>   specified alternative configuration.
>> 
>>   While there may be controlled environments where IP fragmentation
>>   works reliably, this is a deployment issue and can not be known to
>>   someone developing a new protocol or application.  It is not
>>   recommended that new protocols or applications be developed that rely
>>   on IP fragmentation.  Protocols and applications that rely on IP
>>   fragmentation will work less reliably on the Internet unless they
>>   also include mechanisms to detect that IP fragmentation isn't working
>>   reliably.
>> 
>>   Legacy protocols that depend upon IP fragmentation SHOULD be updated
>>   to break that dependency.  However, in some cases, there may be no
>>   viable alternative to IP fragmentation (e.g., IPSEC tunnel mode, IP-
>>   in-IP encapsulation).  In these cases, the protocol will continue to
>>   rely on IP fragmentation but should only be used in environments
>>   where IP fragmentation is known to be supported.
>> 
> Bob,
> 
> These two paragraphs seem somewhat contradicatory. For new protocols
> the recommendation is not to use fragmentation because we can't know
> whether the deployment allows that, but for legacy protocols we're
> allowed to use fragmentation if we know the deployment allows that.

I think the distinction is that it's hard to change legacy protocols and applications, but for new protocols and application, there is a choice to made and here we recommend that they not rely on fragmentation.   That seems clear to me.


> I think it's a lot simpler to just say that if you know fragmentation
> works in your environment or to some destination then you can use it,
> if not then you'll need to do something else. This applies equally to
> legacy protocols and new protocols, on the open Internet as well as
> limited domains. For that matter the rule applies pretty much to any
> protocol that might be considered "fragile" (note, this might just be
> a rewording of Joe's proposed text).

I think that an implementation can’t know fragmentation works in its environment, with out including some sort of mechanism to test it.   Legacy protocols and applications do what they do now, new protocols and application can either decide to not use fragmentation or include a mechanism in their design.

Bob


> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
>>   Protocols may be able to avoid IP fragmentation by using a
>>   sufficiently small MTU (e.g.  The protocol minimum link MTU),
>>   disabling IP fragmentation, and ensuring that the transport protocol
>>   in use adapts its segment size to the MTU.  Other protocols may
>>   deploy a sufficiently reliable PMTU discovery mechanism
>>   (e.g.,PLMPTUD).
>> 
>>   UDP applications SHOULD abide by the recommendations stated in
>>   Section 3.2 of [RFC8085].
>> 
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