Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 31 October 2017 01:23 UTC

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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    > I think this is an interesting topic but I'd really rather
    > seprate it from 6434bis, because we need 6434bis as soon
    > as reasonably possible, and this will take a while.

Well, I tried to raise this while doing 8200, and was told that I should wait
until we got to host requirements.

I'm inclined to file an errata against 8200 if 6463bis proceeds without
dealing with the issue.

    > We've got ourselves into trouble at least twice with
    > automatic tunnels. I'm referring to 6to4 (where I share the
    > blame) and Teredo. They were both IPv6inIPv4 but I think
    > some of the same risks will arise with IPv6inIPv6. There may
    > be contexts where automatic decapsulation is safe and makes
    > sense. There may be others where it generates either operational
    > black holes or enticing security loopholes.

    > So I think this needs to be worked as a separate topic, and
    > I look forward to your draft... :-)

I can write a draft.
I will write it to update 6463.

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