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RE: RFC2460 violation of RFC1122

"Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> Mon, 16 July 2012 16:42 UTC

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From: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
To: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:43:05 -0700
Subject: RE: RFC2460 violation of RFC1122
Thread-Topic: RFC2460 violation of RFC1122
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Narten [mailto:narten@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 9:37 AM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: ipv6@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: RFC2460 violation of RFC1122
> 
> > Why not go all the way and say that IPv4 hosts are expected to
> > reassemble at least 1500 the same as for IPv6 hosts?
> 
> We can say it, but how will we enforce it on the deployed base?

We can't enforce it, just the same as that we can't
enforce anything over 576. Once the standards are
violated, we are already living in sin - so what
does it hurt to magnify the sin ever so slightly?

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

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