Re: [v6ops] ICMPv6 Filtering Recommendations to BCP?

Dear All,
 	As an other author of the draft, I am also ready to contribute and 
send updates.
 	Best Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Head of HBONE+ project
Network Engineer, Director Network and Multimedia
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Co-chair of Hungarian IPv6 Forum
Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F  4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Elwyn Davies wrote:

> Hi.
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 08:43 +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
>> On 20 Dec 2012, at 08:12, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> ICMPv6 PTB filtering is a well known operational problem
>>>> for PMTUD. I see that RFC 4890, ICMPv6 Filtering Recommendations,
>>>> is an Informational RFC.
>>>>
>>>> Is it time to promote it to BCP?
> Those with long memories will remember that progressing this doc as a
> BCP was discussed when it was originally written, but it was not thought
> that there was enough common practice to justify this designation at the
> time. I'm glad it seems to have been useful :-)
>
>>>
>>> Yes please! It is already used like a BCP, so lets label it as such.
>>
>> On this aspect, certainly. The rest of the text should also be reviewed if we're promoting it.
>
> Right:  Checking the IANA list, there have been at least 5 new codes put
> into service (154-158) since the document was written.
>
> As one of the original authors, I'd be happy to put in some extra cycles
> to update the text, but I have not been deeply involved in IPv6
> operational matters for some years so would need input from those more
> involved at the moment to bring the text up to date.
>
> The filter script in the appendix could doubtless do with a check as
> well.
>
> Regards,
> Elwyn
>
>>
>> Tim
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