Re: [tcpm] 793bis: IP ID

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Thu, 23 January 2020 14:54 UTC

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> On Jan 23, 2020, at 5:24 AM, Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I think this is the wrong ID to discuss anything related to IPv4 ID.

I disagree. 

It’s important to support the *requirement* in 6864 by explicitly indicating that the ID *MUST NOT* be used for duplicate segment detection in TCP.

It’s not enough to simply ignore the issue. We can’t fix incorrect implementations unless we have something to back it up.

joe