Hi Carlos,

> One approach is to add a 3.c) to the list that Ron shared. I think there is 
> another potential approach to your initial comment:
> we could note that for a tunneling protocol (GRE), this is equivalent to the 
> relaxation of the UDP checksum in RFC 6935, and keep the existing text.

It’s not that simple (I wish it was).   The short summary is RFC 6935 does not 
set a precedent that can just be cited - in particular a single sentence 
pointing to RFC 6935 to say “therefore this is ok” is likely to garner multiple 
IESG Discuss positions for not explaining why, sorry (Lucy and I are in the 
midst of working through this for GRE-in-UDP).

For the long version, please start with Section 3.1 of the MPLS-in-UDP draft 
(in AUTH48 at the RFC Editor):

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-11#section-3.1

Section 3.2 is also applicable, but much shorter and reasonably straightforward 
by comparison.

Thanks,
--David

From: Lucy yong [mailto:[email protected]]
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Cc: Ronald P. Bonica; [email protected]; [email protected]; 
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Subject: RE: [Int-area] Start of WGLC for draft-ietf-intarea-gre-ipv6


Hi Carlos,

I am not clear what you propose here. UDP checksum includes IP header, GRE 
checksum does not.

Regards,
Lucy

From: Carlos Pignataro (cpignata) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:01 PM
To: Black, David; Lucy yong
Cc: Ronald P. Bonica; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>;
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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Start of WGLC for draft-ietf-intarea-gre-ipv6

Hi, Lucy,

One approach is to add a 3.c) to the list that Ron shared. I think there is 
another potential approach to your initial comment: we could note that for a 
tunneling protocol (GRE), this is equivalent to the relaxation of the UDP 
checksum in RFC 6935, and keep the existing text.

Fred, RFC 2473 does not mention checksums.

Thanks,

Carlos.


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