Joe,

>>>>> I am not ignoring them; I'm claiming that they all have the same inherent 
>>>>> deployment and implementation limitations.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just because operators/vendors "want" to do otherwise does not make it 
>>>>> possible.
>>>> 
>>>> There was IETF consensus behind those documents (A+P).
>>> 
>>> You mean the *experimental* RFCs that describe an approach that doesn't 
>>> update RFC791? (i.e., RFC6364?) Or something else?
>> 
>> The protocol specifications of A+P are all standards track.
>> RFC7596, RFC7597, RFC7599.
>>  
> Thanks for the refs. Note that none of those update RFCs 791 or 1122, so if 
> frag breaks them, then it's their error.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were disagreements about that interpretation 
of “updates”.

> It also looks like (at first glance at least) these devices work only when 
> there isn't multipath between the back and front side.

The A+P routers are stateless and do support multipath. Including traffic does 
not need to be symmetric.
That’s the main selling point for A+P, that you don’t need per flow state in 
the core of the network.

Cheers,
Ole
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