> On Aug 3, 2018, at 2:54 AM, Ole Troan <otr...@employees.org> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> The +P part doesn’t seem like it’s compatible with fragmentation, though -
>> yet it doesn’t update RFC791 to deprecate it throughout the Internet.
>
> It’s not incompatible with fragmentation. Just that there are some pitfalls.
> As explained in rfc7597.
A flawed solution is not reason to break the rest of the Internet by
deprecating fragmentation.
> ...If you can solve this problem in a better way please go ahead.
I don’t have to, nor do I care to. But it isn’t productive to break another
part of the Internet in the search for a solution to this problem.
Joe
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