RE: New Version Notification for draft-bonica-6man-frag-deprecate-00.txt

[Sheng Jiang <[e-mail]>]

>> +1. For me, this draft looks dangerous by proposing to deprecate
>> fragmentation with only one-side observation. This draft does not give
>> enough analysis on these existing fragmentation use cases, particularly
>> these use cases the fragments within a single domain.
>>
>> On other side , only disallowing fragmentation to be used among domains
>> may helpful to reduce the operational complex.
>>
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>Sheng,
>
>I hear you. The next version of the draft will include a discussion of SIIT,
>OSPFv3 and tunneling in general.
>
>(This should address your comments, as well as those of Tore, Fred and Fred.)

Hi, Ron,

Yes, this will address my comments. I agree with Ole that an analysis document would help us to understand the issues and the consequences.

However, I personally think we would found deprecating fragmentation in whole IPv6 protocol might be too dramatic and had too many incompatible issues after carefully and neutral analysis. The deprecating proposal by itself might create more problems than it fixes.

A compromise mechanism that only restrict the usage of fragmentation in certain scenarios may be much less damage.

Best regards,

Sheng

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>                                  Ron