Re: [v6ops] Extension Headers / Impact on Security Devices

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 17 June 2015 18:24 UTC

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On 6/17/2015 11:15 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 17, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
>>
>> IPv6 *is* the innovation, and because of that - for over 15 years -
>> "you" (commercial vendors) told users how expensive it would be to
>> implement and it wasn't ready (because "you" were making higher margins
>> on IPv4 equipment).
> 
> I don't think that's a fair statement.

Perhaps not from those on the vendor's front lines trying to get support
for these new protocols into products, but from where the customers sit,
that's what we see.

Recall there was a time when IPv4 didn't run fast enough and there were
proposals to "water it down" so hardware could keep up - or simply skip
IP forwarding altogether (via flow/tag switching).

The point of my comment was to note that we're repeating history here.
We're back where innovation is someone else's problem because hardware
can't keep up.

I have more faith in the hardware designers. *Temporary* edicts such as
"keep the chain short" or sensible caveats such as "keep the headers in
the first fragment" are fine, but I hope we don't gut IPv6 for the sole
reason of "kicking the can down the road".

Joe