Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-elkins-v6ops-ipv6-end-to-end-rt-needed

[Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]>]

On 04/06/2013 23:17, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Not there exactly, but see
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit/
> because we can't leave things as messy as they are.
> (If you want to discuss that draft, please do so on the 6man list.
> It's intended to allow firewalls to do what they need to do, *and*
> to allow standardised extensions to actually get deployed. That's
> a narrow line to tread, as this thread has illustrated.)

there's also draft-ietf-6man-nd-extension-headers, which encourages safe
use of extension headers for ND stuff; and rfc6564, which attempts to limit
future damage.  The underlying theme of all these documents is that
extension headers cause trouble.

Nick