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

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 6/17/2015 8:11 AM, Ca By wrote:
> IPv6 is serious business now.  That means it needs to be the narrow
> waist of the internet that is small on services and large on stability
> and predictability.
> 
> Please
> review https://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2011/03/hourglass-london-ietf.pdf
> 
> For the folks looking for extension header innovation, would you be
> willing to work on IP version X instead of IPv6?  Or perhaps you can use
> the Class E IPv4 space for your innovation?
> 
> Serious.  IPv6 is not a place for innovation at the Network / Internet
> layer. ...

Hmm.

The design of the IPv6 header chain system was intended to overcome
these sort of limitations of IPv4, e.g., to understand what to do with
unknown options, to separate HBH vs E2E, etc.

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).

Now that we really need it and thus "you" are making money off it, we
(the IETF innovators) are supposed to go away (i.e., use protocol
extensions that don't impact your profit margins because you don't
support them)?

IMO, IPv6 is an E-ticket ride*. If you want to make money off it, IMO
"you" need to expect to pay the price to keep up.

Joe

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket