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

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Thu, 05 September 2019 18:29 UTC

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

   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].