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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08.txt> (Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification) to Internet Standard

Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-3@u-1.phicoh.com> Fri, 10 February 2017 11:29 UTC

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>E.g. the response to your argument in this email:
>1.a.i) Out of scope: Argue the point of header insertion or alternatives 
>in the context of those proposals, not in the context of the core IPv6 
>specification. Do not try to make a preemptive strike in the core 
>specification.

Quoting from this draft (Section 4):
"With one exception, extension headers are not processed by any node
"along a packet's delivery path

"The exception referred to in the preceding paragraph is the Hop-by-
"Hop Options header

I guess somebody has to come up with a creative interpretation of this 
text that allows segment routing headers to be removed along the way.

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