Re: [v6ops] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-wkumari-long-headers-01.txt

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 7/5/2013 7:54 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> of course it depends on the header chain length.  It
> depends on plenty of other things too, but header chain length is one of them.

It would be useful to start by explaining:

a) what traffic you need to inspect?
	- to the router
	- through the router

Which one determines whether you need to suggest limiting header chains 
for all traffic or just traffic to your router.

b) what is the problem with inspecting traffic?

	- the length of the chain
	- how many 'links' in the chain

the former is a memory capacity and bandwidth problem;
the latter is a processing speed problem

Neither one has anything to do with whether you use ASICs; they both 
have to do with whether you are space or time limited and in what resource.

Which one is the problem determines whether you need to limit the length 
of the chain or the number of links in it, or both.

Joe