Hi Joe and Tom,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Touch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 11:26 AM
> To: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
> Cc: Templin, Fred L <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Call for adoption of draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp-03
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/26/2016 11:22 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 5/26/2016 10:52 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> >>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Here's the problem:
> >>>>
> >>>> The first 4 bits are either part of the GUE header or IPv4 or IPv6.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the diagrams in draft-ietf-nvo3-gue and RFC791 they're indicated in 
> >>>> the
> >>>> following bit order: 0,1,2,3
> >>>>
> >>>> In GUE, these are 0,0,x,x
> >>>>
> >>>> In IPv4, these are 0,0,1,0
> >>>>
> >>>> In IPv6, these are 0,1,1,0
> >>>>
> >>> IPv4 is 0,1,0,0.
> >> Not LSB to MSB, which is how both GUE and RFC791 define the header:
> >>
> > >From RFC791:
> >
> > "Whenever an octet represents a numeric quantity the left most bit in
> > the diagram is the high order or most significant bit.  That is, the
> > bit
> > labeled 0 is the most significant bit."
> Arrgh.
> 
> Yup. OK, so the reason this would work is only because we no longer use
> IP versions 0..3.
> 
> Got it.

I for one like it, and I am using it in my AERO implementation. As Joe points 
out
however it does not account for fragmentation, identification etc. But, as long
as you use it in a carefully controlled environment it should be OK.

Can we have this added back to the GUE spec?

Thanks - Fred

> 
> Joe

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