Re: Transmission of IPv6 Jumbograms as Atomic Fragments

Fred,

Is there any evidence of usage of jumbograms? To my knowledge, even the high energy phsyics community, one of the main proponents of jumbograms back in the days when HIPPI seemed important, doesn't use them, despite extensive use of IPv6 for bulk data.

Regards
    Brian

On 18-Nov-21 06:54, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
> Here is a new draft that may be of interest. It is a quick read (~2pgs) and proposes to
> update RFC2675 by permitting transmission of IPv6 jumbograms as atomic fragments.
> 
> Please post comments to the list.
> 
> Fred
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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>          Title           : Transmission of IPv6 Jumbograms as Atomic Fragments
>          Author          : Fred L. Templin
> 	Filename        : draft-templin-6man-jumbofrag-00.txt
> 	Pages           : 4
> 	Date            : 2021-11-17
> 
> Abstract:
>     Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) provides a service for
>     transmission of IPv6 packets larger than 65,535 octets known as
>     "jumbograms".  Such large packets are not eligible for fragmentation,
>     and the current specification forbids the inclusion of a fragment
>     header of any kind.  However, some implementations may wish to
>     include an Identification value with each jumbogram; hence this
>     document proposes the transmission of IPv6 jumbograms as "atomic
>     fragments".
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-jumbofrag/
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> There is also an htmlized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-templin-6man-jumbofrag-00
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