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Re: [v6ops] why IPv6 EHs in the Real World

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Fri, 10 April 2015 16:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] why IPv6 EHs in the Real World
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On 10/04/2015 00:58, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 10/04/2015 09:07, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> products are designed to a budget and a performance spec.  There's no point
>> in building a router which will inspect 65536 byte packets for EH chains if
>> it's too expensive for anyone to buy, or if it trashes performance by
>> passing packets with headers that big.  There is always a
>> cost/speed/features compromise.
> 
> Of course. But we already changed the standard to limit this problem:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7112

a policy cannot change reality.  At best it can hope to complement it.

Nick

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