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

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Mon, 06 November 2017 18:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: Updating to RFC6434 to deal with 8200-style header insertion by IPIP
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 11/04/2017 10:37 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > Yes, that particular elephant stands politely and quietly in the corner
>     > of the room. However, I'd just read the text you cite when I wrote my
>     > message and I'll stick to what I said: we *specify* action for an
>     > unrecognized extension header, but we ignore the elephant and *don't*
>     > specify action for an unrecognized ULP. Consider it a drafting error,
>     > or a design error. I agree with you about the practical effect: an
>     > unexpected IPIP packet is likely to generate ICMP 1 today.
> 
> okay, so shouldn't 6463 fix this part at least?

You can't, unless you close the door to new EHs or to new ULPs. See:
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gont-6man-ipv6-universal-extension-header-02.txt>

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Fernando Gont
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