> On 27 Jul 2018, at 19:20, Tom Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right, but I still think that we should be more clear about the root > origin of problems and blunt in requesting that non-conformant > implementations get fixed.
Barring bugs, implementations work the way they do because customers have required them to have features that are used to parse deep into packets. IPv6 extension headers where to some extent designed to make it hard to parse in hardware. Not that, that helped. Yes, we agree on the root cause. But since these are legitimate features (from the perspective of whomever is operating the middlebox) this isn’t something that can be fixed by decree or by claiming it’s a bug. The tool we have in fighting ossification, is crypto. Cheers Ole _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
