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

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:33:12PM +0000, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
> 
> > 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 was originally thinking this way too, but now I am thinking
> that deprecation of an old method is often the first step in
> the path to adoption of a new method that avoids the old issues.
> There have been examples in the past (e.g., deprecation of site
> locals leading to ULAs), and I don't see why it would be any
> different in this case.

While browsing the draft I wondered if applications do handle the
EPROTO errno case for writes on a socket with a recevied icmp error
parameter-problem correctly today.

I doubt that recommending not implementing reassembly would be beneficial.

Greetings,

  Hannes