Re: [Roll] WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03

Philip Levis <pal@cs.stanford.edu> Sat, 16 August 2014 00:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03
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On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Ray Hunter <v6ops@globis.net> wrote:

> After reading the draft it seems to me that what is being attempted is
> 1) to add some stuff to the IPv6 header that is RPL domain specific
> 2) to reduce the overall packet length to reduce active radio time and thus save energy
> by
> 3) overloading an existing well-defined and used IPv6 header field
> 
> My simple logic tells me that
> 1) could be best solved at an architecture level via an extension header http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460#page-11 + http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7045
> 2) could be best solved at an architecture level via IP header compression http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2507.html with or without additional tweaks
> and that overloading an opaque field in 3) by incorporating values with low entropy (as per the RPL flow label) gives additional security risks to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7098
> 
> So what's wrong with my simple logic?

1) There is an extension header already; the problem is that it can introduce a significant (ballpark estimates are, in well engineered networks, up to 5-10%) cost. The proposal is to replace the extension header with using the flow label.

2) There'a already significant IP header compression in the cases we're talking about.

Phil