Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

[Marc Lampo <[e-mail]>]

let's write a draft on deprecating the statement, from RFC 793, that

The TCP must recover from data that is ...
    delivered out of order by the internet communication system.

(my feeling :
 just like this would actually create a new, incompatible, transport
protocol;
 deprecating the fragmentation extension header creates a new, incompatible
to IPv6, network protocol)


Kind regards,

Marc


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Francis Dupont <[e-mail]>wrote:

>  In your previous mail you wrote:
>
> >  Considering the above, I guess I'm in the camp of "avoid fragmentation
> >  where possible". However, I don't think I'd go as far as deprecating it.
>
> => I have private notes about the deprecation of reassembly so
> not so far... BTW there was (still is) a TCP/IP stack so poor it
> doesn't handle reassembly of out of order TCP fragments, so the idea
> is not so silly.
>
> Regards
>
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