[tcpm] 793bis: IPv6 jumbograms

Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> Thu, 19 December 2019 16:26 UTC

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Subject: [tcpm] 793bis: IPv6 jumbograms
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I'm planning to apply Gorry's suggested text below directly, unless 
anyone has objections or other thoughts?

On 8/28/2019 11:39 AM, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
> OLD:
> 3.7.5.  IPv6 Jumbograms
>
>    In order to support TCP over IPv6 jumbograms, implementations need to
>    be able to send TCP segments larger than the 64KB limit that the MSS
>    option can convey.  RFC 2675 [6] defines that an MSS value of 65,535
>    bytes is to be treated as infinity, and Path MTU Discovery [3] is
>    used to determine the actual MSS.
> - This was discussed in the 6Man WG in Montreal, and while there was no
> consensus reached to obsolete jumbograms, there was encouragement
> to ensure that specs describe jumbo grams appropriate, rather than
> suggesting support is required. In this sense, I recommend adding
> something like:
> NEW:
>    The Jumbo Payload option need not be implemented or understood by
>    IPv6 nodes that do not support attachment to links with a MTU greater
>    than 65,575 [RFC2675], and  the present IPv6 Node Requirements
>    does not include support for Jumbograms [RFC8504].