Re: [v6ops] IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 10/3/2014 7:17 AM, Fernando Gont wrote:
> And you certainly do not want the "here's what we saw", "here's how we'd
> like you to filter packets with EHs", "here's what the IETF should
> consider when designing new protocols", because they tend to be rather
> orthogonal, and also targeted at different communities.  -- the guy
> doing the packet filtering is likely different from the guy developing
> new protocols, etc.

The coupling of these determines how you act. It determines whether you
can filter safely, only when under threat or in a particular
environment, or should not filter under any circumstances.

And that's why it's dangerous to split these out. These should not be
targeted at different communities without a single, coherent context of
both what is known to happen, what the risks are, and the recommendations.

Ultimately, we need an Internet whose behavior is coherent, not based on
potentially interfering communities perceived as being orthogonal.

Joe