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

[Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]>]

On 05/07/2013 16:27, Joe Touch wrote:
> It would be useful to start by explaining:

I already have, multiple times over the past couple of months, and most
recently in my previous email.

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

Both:
	to: control plane policing / RE firewalling
	through: infrastructure ACLs

Both are equally important to running functional networks and incidentally
both are handled by the same hardware ACL/queueing mechanisms.

> b) what is the problem with inspecting traffic?
> 
>     - the length of the chain
>     - how many 'links' in the chain

On current generation forwarding engines, mostly the length of the chain.

> 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.

I made no claim in this regard.  What I said was that your statement
"claims that this is about a technical problem are false" was absurd.

Nick