Hi Joe,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Touch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 3:35 PM
> To: Templin, Fred L; Ronald Bonica; Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-gre-ipv6
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/27/2015 3:22 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> ...
> >> I.e., this is consistent with IPv4 allowing on-path fragmentation, and
> >> consistent with IPv6 never fragmenting on-path.
> >
> > You are being dogmatic for no good reason.
> 
> RFC2460 forbids it *explicitly*.
> 
> That's a good reason.

You are still being too dogmatic. For atomic fragments, the situation is no
different than for an IPv6/IPv4 translator. In fact, it is even better because
the IPv6 tunnel ingress knows that the final destination is required to
reassemble at least 1500. For an IPv6/IPv4 translator on the other
hand, all the translator is assured is 576.

I do not see any "MUST NOTs" in RFC2460, nor any dire consequences for
allowing a tunnel ingress to fragment atomic fragments. So, if we update
the final paragraph of Section 5 of RFC2460 we should be good to go.

Thanks - Fred
[email protected]

> Joe
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