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Re: Next steps on Extension Header Insertion

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 08 November 2016 18:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: Next steps on Extension Header Insertion
To: "Stefano Previdi (sprevidi)" <sprevidi@cisco.com>, "otroan@employees.org" <otroan@employees.org>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:37:48 +1300
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On 08/11/2016 23:10, Stefano Previdi (sprevidi) wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 8, 2016, at 9:18 AM, otroan@employees.org wrote:
>>
>>> So, the *fact* is that the current text is ambiguous, since it has been interpreted
>>> both ways. As standards writers, we should hate ambiguity.
>>
>> As standards writers, we should love interoperability.
> 
> 
> agreed.

Yes. Broken PMTUD is not very interoperable.

   Brian

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