Re: comments on draft-baker-6man-hbh-header-handling

"C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com> Thu, 12 November 2015 01:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: comments on draft-baker-6man-hbh-header-handling
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:48 PM,  <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
> I would be perfectly fine with the work on header injection continuing
> outside of the context of RFC2460bis.

If that means having 6man endorse standards-track (or even
experimental) documents that permit the length of an IPv6
packet to be changed by an intermediate system without
adding another IPv6 header, then I'm afraid I don't agree.

Rather than repeat previous discussion let me just point to
this message by Brian Carpenter:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg22830.html

Note that the objections to header injection apply equally to
options whose length can change in transit.  I'd like to see
the 6man WG weigh in against both.

//cmh