[TERNLI] Forwarding corrupt packets

[Michael Welzl <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

Here's an idea for a potentially useful message that
could be exchanged between end systems and the inner
network:

>From transport end point to network:
"Corruption Acceptable (CA)" (meaning that it would be
preferrable to forward packets that are corrupt rather
than drop them)

>From network to transport end point: "Corruption
Forwarding supported (CF)"

Purpose: help the end system decide whether to use
UDP-Lite, or partial checksums in DCCP, or the
Data Checksum option in DCCP.

These functions don't yield a benefit if a network
element drops all corrupt packets anyway. A CF
message could indicate that they would yield a
benefit. A CA message could increase the chance
of seeing a benefit.

What do you say?

Cheers,
Michael