On 28/07/2018 08:28, Ole Troan wrote: > > >> On 27 Jul 2018, at 22:12, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Fragmentation, (PL)PMTUD, extension headers, and innovative >> L4 protocols are very possibly not viable on the open Internet. >> At least, we can't assume that they will work on arbitrary paths. >> Sad but apparently true. > > Hasn’t this been discussed ad infinitum in the ossification work? > If you want to generalize, nothing is guaranteed to work across an arbitrary > path in the Internet. > > So what? This is part of a tussle and it would be making a self fulfilling > prophecy for us to take all policy based filtering or other brokenness into > consideration when designing protocols.
So you'd prefer that we design protocols that can't possibly work? Yes, it's a tussle. But sometimes it's better to know you're in a fight; it gives you a better chance of winning ;-). Anyway, we're off topic, sorry, my fault. Brian _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
