Re: [v6ops] [OPSEC] Call for WG adoption - Recommendations on Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers

[Ole Troan <[e-mail]>]

>> shouldn't this be a draft authored by operators? giving operational recommendations coming out of... well, actual operations?
> 
> Well, another way of looking at this is that operators just want things to work as well as they can, so they need guidance from vendors and protocol designers.
> 
> Isn't this a BCOP style document? I believe at least one of the authors is active in one or more BCOP group.

the protocol designer's recommendation does appear pretty clear, RFC2460:

   "With one exception, extension headers are not examined or processed
   by any node along a packet's delivery path, until the packet reaches
   the node (or each of the set of nodes, in the case of multicast)
   identified in the Destination Address field of the IPv6 header."

my point is that I don't think the IETF should be making recommendations about how they should run their network, and certainly not make recommendations that are at odds with the functioning of the protocol.

cheers,
Ole