Hi Brian,

On 04/08/2015 06:18 PM, Brian Haberman wrote:
> Fred,
>
> On 4/8/15 3:30 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
>> To be constructive, one way forward would be to define a new field in the GRE
>> header called the "fragment" field. It would be used to fragment the payload
>> packet prior to encapsulating each fragment in a separate delivery header.
>> This would be an example of tunnel fragmentation as suggested in Section
>> 3.1.7 of RFC2764.
>
> That would be a fine proposal to write-up, but it does not belong in
> this document.  *This* document describes what vendors have implemented.
>   It is an Informational document.

Exactly.

>
> If anything were to go in this document, I could see an additional
> description in the Security Considerations section that describes the
> vulnerability you are concerned about.
>
> WG?

This was discussed even before the document was adopted. The document 
was originally shooting for BCP and due to these concerns, all 
prescriptive text was removed and it became solely a description of 
existing (and widely deployed) implementations. I had summarized this in 
the WG summary of the Shepherd writeup. I am not sure what to add to the 
Security considerations of this draft, but it is worth exploring.

Thanks
Suresh


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