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

[Czerwonka Michał - Hurt TP <[e-mail]>]

"..., they should be deprecated " and increase the MTU on the Internet,now the minimum MTU is 8000. We forget about the fragmentation.

BR,
Mcz

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Od: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] W imieniu Mark Smith
Wysłano: 25 października 2012 10:41
Do: Merike Kaeo; Lorenzo Colitti
DW: V6 Ops
Temat: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop

Hi,



----- Original Message -----
> From: Merike Kaeo <[e-mail]>
> To: Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]>
> Cc: V6 Ops <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 7:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop
> 
> 
> On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> 
>>  On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>  So, what do we do?  Do we:
>> 
>>  - ignore the problem
>>  - issue generic advice
>>  - name and shame
>>  - other
>> 
>>  Other. Document that some networks drop fragments, the reasons why they do 
> so, and the impact on applications, but provide no advice.
> 
> +1
> 

I think there should be advice. If the IETF has seen fit to make

fragmentation a capability of IPv6, then I think that is inherently saying
that the IETF strongly suggests if not requires forwarding rather than
dropping of fragments for successful IPv6 operation. This seems to me to
be an RFC2775 Internet Transparency issue.

Alternatively, if fragments are more trouble than they're worth,
they should be deprecated. 

>>  It's unlikely that this group, let alone the IETF, would agree on what 

> advice to give (at least this decade), but I think it is the responsibility of 
> an operations group to document real operational issues, so the rest of the 
> community, including application developers and protocol developers, can be made 
> aware of it.
> 

It seems to me that developing an application that may be used over the

Internet involves developing for the worst case, not the best. If a small
but significant enough portion of sites on the Internet drop fragments, then
applications will be developed to avoid using fragments. Once applications
avoid using fragments to suit some sites on the Internet, then all sites
on the Internet may as well drop them, because they've been rendered useless.

> +1 on documenting known issues to make others aware
> 
> - merike
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