IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: [v6ops] WG Doc? draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 14 March 2016 00:51 UTC

Return-Path: <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: v6ops@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: v6ops@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825DF12D634 for <v6ops@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:33 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -2.7
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
Authentication-Results: ietfa.amsl.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id soVko43o6mxl for <v6ops@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:31 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail-pa0-x22b.google.com (mail-pa0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 634CA12D9C1 for <v6ops@ietf.org>; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:31 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by mail-pa0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id td3so117154101pab.2 for <v6ops@ietf.org>; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:31 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:organization:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KZjbQHNuzBf/KPQai1tMu29RnLtlORV4SPV+LY0Rhs0=; b=X2VUbaqnN7p9Cizrra6qKpGLwFfKA1hseIZ/gvgQKiS8PoQayCYj6DA9tydCJrQLLH q4k+qxYkpXvmcDCEnsuCVLIT9rb1sQuLoHPSRcGHlXdvUDJvyi70TWa4O7jk93xZPOzf MVc5R1mjDwG7pDgVSO0SaE/bDZ5H/Iwn5VTRJf3UrMraCMahKT61cxnI+wRkT3y33ZJx m7y5zg7cpN3nfPugPM1cYBuSKtBekBlkKy8aJEw3QULTD+7vtKE9w5EbJopKt7KaOwEB q2gRUQzHYjfzxSEYOJrCBPCjZBhk2BvK9EUZGAzQEdZZ/6pr+MwlXJt6BYC0MhOsL6SC CFog==
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:organization :message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KZjbQHNuzBf/KPQai1tMu29RnLtlORV4SPV+LY0Rhs0=; b=gThxtPfbLH6almh+0brRCDZb/wFaGoYIr+1ZWgKNKA2mTe2eJ0feIv/fWFU3u0HNHi qTvQevtEn1lO1EMJIWUpKvjdTkNprnfmC+Dkr8XAL2EfjA6qDtQLKtzthE3CEzhSVWxn f8hiRw2pd1ry9sgNbdUJRcXrqiacrP8AqB8qiJWi0I7Hul02yGyrxrQyfRGFSiZUhAcY 27OpJyNE312n0mEvjOMln+xUhEr7WNbeQqIWObsJWYJ9FcfXWpu4fyQms3o+M33Ejxtf qdZfOOn3vTb8xoX9apxlw6zW8hMlfGYS6Rf64NYujihgkohnGh4aHMtTsazhbDn2hb03 yISw==
X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJLsv2/XUEKnOXxyw4g7CZ0xQ1OEk3JWmBIUOWfHSbNIA6mNq7vFuK+flokbx/IeMQ==
X-Received: by 10.66.90.136 with SMTP id bw8mr33892440pab.52.1457916690987; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:30 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.88.117] ([103.29.31.50]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id yh5sm27526234pab.13.2016.03.13.17.51.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:29 -0700 (PDT)
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>, otroan@employees.org
References: <A277BE71-BD70-4AFE-97DA-F224D7DBBCB8@cisco.com> <BDA56C2D-788D-421C-B44A-1A29578F0F78@employees.org> <56E318C7.5020200@gmail.com> <F57DFD38-FC99-45AE-B41D-51B0565148B1@employees.org> <CALx6S37vNXk-g=W4n_Qvd2J=7xkgydvGEUwrhu8pRQig0hoqLg@mail.gmail.com> <1BB37194-0F5B-45C1-9DFA-87B1C28264D2@employees.org> <CALx6S37vfDcchTa5Tch+BS8rQAGgPP_EeYbVz19WBchSHTqExg@mail.gmail.com>
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Organization: University of Auckland
Message-ID: <56E60B0D.6070600@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:51:25 +1300
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S37vfDcchTa5Tch+BS8rQAGgPP_EeYbVz19WBchSHTqExg@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Archived-At: <http://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/v6ops/Nepje9Ld2NF34zd6FNG__jy5YBs>
Cc: "v6ops@ietf.org" <v6ops@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [v6ops] WG Doc? draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops
X-BeenThere: v6ops@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17
Precedence: list
List-Id: v6ops discussion list <v6ops.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/v6ops>, <mailto:v6ops-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/v6ops/>
List-Post: <mailto:v6ops@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:v6ops-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/v6ops>, <mailto:v6ops-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:51:33 -0000

On 14/03/2016 09:59, Tom Herbert wrote:
...
> the point of using flow label is
> that it eliminates the need to parse extension headers in the first
> place for the ECMP use case. It would be nice if this benefit was and
> the need for flow label support were better enunciated in the draft.

I'll be the least likely person on the planet to disagree with that,
but it is already part of the IPv6 standards (RFC6437 - see 2nd and 3rd
paragraphs of the Introduction) and has been in the IPv6 Node Requirements
since 2011 (RFC434).

    Brian

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email