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Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 31 October 2012 11:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop
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On 31/10/2012 11:21, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>>> Unfortunately the IPv6 architecture requires the network to
>>> be transparent to arbitrary extension header chains.

>> Good luck with that in real networks.
> 
> Agreed. "Not gonna happen."

I am not totally unrealistic. However, there are some things that
the IETF can do to make the reality a bit better than it is at
the moment.

    Brian

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