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

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Fri, 13 September 2019 14:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Discussion about Section 6.1 in draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile
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> On Sep 13, 2019, at 5:05 AM, Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> And the link layer could include capabilities such as described in RFC 1990…

Wouldn’t this required:

a) stateful associations between all link endpoints

b) all links be 2-party only

c) intermediate devices be happy to handle fragments that might not have a transport header

I.e., how does this move the needle forward?

Joe

> 
>> On Sep 13, 2019, at 2:59 PM, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Fred,
>> 
>>> Ron, it is just a drop in the bucket compared with the amount of discussion since
>>> "Fragmentation Considered Harmful (1987)". But, I think we now clearly see a
>>> case where  fragmentation is *required*.
>> 
>> Absolutely. As tunnels produce a new link-layer, that can (should) be a function of that link-layer.
>> Network layer fragmentation is not needed for that.
>> (For the purpose of making the point and to set future direction, ignoring existing IP tunnel mechanisms).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ole
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