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

sthaug@nethelp.no Mon, 18 May 2015 11:43 UTC

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> > - it has not happened in the past 17 yrs (since publication of RFC2460) that compelling, Internet-scale use cases of extension headers have been brought up.
> 
> this is clearly wrong. FH, AH, ESP are all widely deployed.
> any form of tunnelling is essentially either using the IP header as an extension header. including GRE.

AH is in RFC 2402 (1998).
ESP is in RFC 2406 (1998).
FH is in RFC 2460 (1998).

Do we have any examples of Internet-scale use cases where the extension
header has been defined *after* RFC 2460?

Steinar Haug, AS 2116