Many thanks for your review of this and the other draft, Ron! Jari
On 08 Sep 2015, at 19:19, Ronald Bonica <[email protected]> wrote: > I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, > please see the FAQ at > <http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq> > > Document: > draft-ietf-conex-tcp-modifications-09 > Reviewer: Ron Bonica > Review Date: 2015-09-07 > IETF LC End Date: 2015-08-31 > IETF Telechat Date: 2015-10-01 > > Summary: This document will be ready for publication as soon as the > major issue (below) below is addressed. > > Major Issues: > > This document contains a normative reference to draft-ietf-conex-destopt-09. > The normative reference is appropriate, because this document doesn't work at > all unless the concepts described in draft-ietf-conex-destopt-09 work. > > I am concerned about draft-ietf-conex-destopt-09. It uses an IPv6 Destination > Option to signal CONEX state to intermediate routers. However, according to > RFC 2460: > > "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." > > The exception to which RFC 2460 refers is the Hop-by-hop Extension Header. > Intermediate routers don't examine Destination Options. > > Section 5 of draft-ietf-conex-destopt-09 attempts to address this issue, but > I am not sure that the argument is acceptable. > > Minor Issues: None > > Editorial Issues: > > > > > > > Ron Bonica > > _______________________________________________ > Gen-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
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