Re: Future of hop-by-hop options ? (was: DISCUSS on draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-alt-mark-08)

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Thu, 12 August 2021 15:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: Future of hop-by-hop options ? (was: DISCUSS on draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-alt-mark-08)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:48:23 -0700
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Cc: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>, IPv6 List <ipv6@ietf.org>, IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, "6man-chairs@ietf.org" <6man-chairs@ietf.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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> On Aug 12, 2021, at 8:42 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> 
> Toerless Eckert wrote on 12/08/2021 16:17:
>> I was wondering if/what we had anything written up already yet to document
>> the architectural challenges of the IPv6 hop-by-hop behavior and
>> expectations. If not, we should.
> 
> at a more general level, rfc7872 and draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops describe issues with EHs.

As well as:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hinden-6man-hbh-processing/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peng-v6ops-hbh-05

There is ongoing work to improve the situation.

Bob