Re: Next steps on advancing core IPv6 specifications to full Internet standard

Hemant Singh <hemantietf@gmail.com> Thu, 17 November 2016 14:22 UTC

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From: Hemant Singh <hemantietf@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:22:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: Next steps on advancing core IPv6 specifications to full Internet standard
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I have cced to a few SR folks.  Why did the SR implementation in the Linux
kernel go with add/delete EH rather than encapsulation?   Why wasn't
encapsulation used first with SR for the Linux kernel implementation?

Thanks,

Hemant


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:18 PM, 神明達哉 <jinmei@wide.ad.jp> wrote:

> At Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:19:45 +0900,
> otroan@employees.org wrote:
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>
> Assuming so, I'd like to say I still have a serious concern with this
> text in that it's as "ambiguous" to the extent the original RFC2460
> was ambiguous regarding whether the protocol intends (intended) to
> allow such extension header insertion.  I'm concerned about this
> because such ambiguity can lead to casual violation of the intent (we
> know the intent was to not allow it) and casually dismissing the
> stated problems and other issues that are not explicitly noted in the
> text.  The existence of segment routing implementation for the Linux
> kernel (a general purpose operating system) suggests it's not just an
> imaginary concern: http://www.segment-routing.org/index.php/SR/SR-IPv6
>
>
>