Re: [v6ops] WG Doc? draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops

"Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com> Mon, 28 March 2016 21:36 UTC

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From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] WG Doc? draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-packet-drops
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On Mar 28, 2016, at 2:29 PM, touch@isi.edu wrote:
> Note, however, that the idea of an offset to "jump" to the transport
> header makes no sense. There's no rule that HBH header lengths never
> change in transit, which means you just end up with another field that
> might be inconsistent with the actual header.

Don't tell the 6man chairs. They think that changing the length of a HBH header (or any header) in transit would be a problem, and I can confirm that in the event that there is an AH header in the packet. We had that discussion in 6man at IETF 94.