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Re: [v6ops] [OPSEC] Call for WG adoption - Recommendations on Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Mon, 13 October 2014 07:09 UTC

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:09:42 +0200
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] [OPSEC] Call for WG adoption - Recommendations on Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Ole Troan wrote:

> shouldn't this be a draft authored by operators? giving operational 
> recommendations coming out of... well, actual operations?

Well, another way of looking at this is that operators just want things to 
work as well as they can, so they need guidance from vendors and protocol 
designers.

Isn't this a BCOP style document? I believe at least one of the authors is 
active in one or more BCOP group.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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