On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the first case, the version field is literally useless.  It is wholly
> redundant or worse insufficient, given that the receiver of the protocol
> data unit sees the new stuff in other ways than the version field.
>
> In the latter case, it's really an entirely new protocol, which should
> be identified by the next-lower protocol, rather than by using the
> version field as an in-bred demultiplexing field.
>
> And yes, IPv4 and IPv6 are distinguished by different demultiplexing
> values in the Ethernet frame:
>
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType
>

This argues for creating a new thing that looks almost identical to DKIM,
using a new header field name, that has this one extra property.  That
forces demultiplexing one pseudo-layer down.  I think John produced a draft
about that as well.

I can't get my head around the "entirely new" part of that assertion though.

-MSK
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