Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt

I do not support this work.  It seems ill conceived and unnecessary.

If there are needs for new extension headers, they should be presented.  If the data must be carried as an extension header, then specific new extension headers should be defined for those code points.

Tony

On Dec 20, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Hing-Kam (Kam) Lam wrote:

> I support this work and would like to see this progressed.
> 
> Kam
> 
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:15 AM,  <Internet-Drafts@ietf.org> wrote:
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>> This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.
>> 
>> 
>>        Title           : An uniform format for IPv6 extension headers
>>        Author(s)       : S. Krishnan, et al.
>>        Filename        : draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt
>>        Pages           : 8
>>        Date            : 2010-12-17
>> 
>> In IPv6, optional internet-layer information is encoded in separate
>> headers that may be placed between the IPv6 header and the transport
>> layer header.  There are a small number of such extension headers
>> currently defined.  This document defines a format for defining a new
>> family of IPv6 extension headers.
>> 
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-6man-exthdr-01.txt
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