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

"C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com> Mon, 13 October 2014 20:47 UTC

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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, Joe Touch wrote:
> On 10/13/2014 12:24 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> ...
> > Exactly. I believe this draft, and the options draft, are *exactly* what
> > the IETF should do (and why we have an E in our name instead of an S;
> > we are not the Internet Standards Task Force). If our standards are
> > unrealistic, we should be the ones to do something about it...
> 
> If it's that our standards are unrealistic, it would be useful to
> address this as changes to the standards.

That's what RFC 7045 does; it has "Updates: 2460, 2780" on its front 
page.  Similarly, draft-gont-6man-ipv6-opt-transmit (the options 
draft referred to above) has "Updates: 2460 (if approved)" in its 
front page.

//cmh