Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops-00 - Admin Policy

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Mon, 03 August 2020 10:26 UTC

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Hello, Eduard,

On 1/8/20 14:02, Vasilenko Eduard wrote:
> I know from discussion with some carriers that some of them filter out EHs intentionally
> To avoid any problems discussed in this draft.
> It is definitely the reason for EHs drops, but non-technical. It is probably "Absence of use case".

Ultimately, there are technical reasons behind such drops: i.e., any of 
the subsections from Section 6.

Most likely, if EHs were innocuous, even if there wasn't a use case, 
folks could let them through.

While it is true that there are not many use cases for EHs, there are at 
least to important ones: fragmentation and IPsec's ESP. And these two 
get dropped, too.



> Additional risk and additional processing capacity should have the reward. It is just business.

Indeed.

As noted, even for cases where there's a use case (e.g. IPsec ESP), or 
fragmentation (see the numbers for fragment drops for the case of DNS 
servers), packets with EHs are still dropped.

(me thinking out loud, and asking for more thoughts, if you wish)

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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