Re: Next steps on Extension Header Insertion

[Sander Steffann <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ole,

> To paraphrase Michael Moore: "If you as a man is against gay marriage, then you do have the option of not marrying another man".

Everybody is fully entitled to their own way of life and love :)  But the analogy doesn't fit...

> In this context; you have the choice of not deploying any packet mangling middleboxes.

If the mangled packets can be contained in one administrative domain then that's fine. I think that this is the point where the disagreement starts. Standards are about interoperability: everything that goes beyond your administrative domain. I don't care what people do to packets on their network, as long as interoperability doesn't suffer: as long as other operators don't even notice.

So I think the standard should say "this is what externally observable behaviour should/must be" with the understanding that "if you deviate from the standard internally, you must make sure the rest of the world doesn't notice".

I think that's what interoperability is about: your network, your rules, but between networks we use standards-based IPv6.

Cheers,
Sander