On 06/12/2013 07:44 PM, Joe Touch wrote: >> >> I disagree. This is nto a fundamental change, but rather a deployment >> issue, well within the charter. See: > > It can't be just a deployment issue if it updates 2460 to change how > fragmentation works.
It doesn't change how fragmentation works. It just clarifies a corner case which was allowed by the standard, but is not employed in practice, and none expected to happen. >> The 6man working group is responsible for the maintenance, upkeep, >> and advancement of the IPv6 protocol specifications and addressing >> architecture. It is not chartered to develop major changes or >> additions to the IPv6 specifications. > > IPv6 already puts all the per-hop information before the fragmentation > header. Requiring the entire header chain to be inside the first > fragment is, IMO, a major change. I guess we must agree to disagree. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
