Re: [Tsv-art] [Last-Call] [v6ops] Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops-05

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Sat, 20 February 2021 19:10 UTC

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Hi Tom,

Tom Herbert wrote on 20/02/2021 15:32:
> This is reflected in the statement: "If an IPv6 header chain is
> sufficiently long that it exceeds the packet look-up capacity of the
> router, the router might be unable to determine how the packet should
> be handled, and thus could resort to dropping the packet." It's not to
> me clear what "sufficiently long" means;

Is this just an issue of dialect?  The term "If an IPv6 header chain is 
sufficiently long that..." just means "If an IPv6 header chain is long 
enough that..."

> in particular, such a
> statement isn't helpful to the host stack developer trying to figure
> out if the packets they're creating will be properly forwarded.

That's something that should be addressed in a future ID.  Right now 
we're concentrating on documenting the problem.

Nick