Hi Tom, I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to read this yet, but the AERO draft has for a long time proposed including an IPv6 fragment header as the next header in an IPv4 packet (see Appendix A of 'draft-templin-intarea-6706bis'). Is what you are proposing essentially the same thing?
Thanks - Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: Int-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Herbert > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Int-area] Fwd: New Version Notification for > draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh-00.txt > > Hello, > > The goal of this draft is to define a common (and hopefully feasible) > method of extensibility and netwrok signaling between IPv4 and IPv6. > The draft specifies two things: > > - IPv4 extension headers. Basically this is just IPv6 extension > headers that are recast to be used in IPv4. > - Encapsulating extension headers and trailing transport protocol in > UDP so as to make extension headers transparent to intermediate > devices that have problems processing them. > > Tom > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:19 PM > Subject: New Version Notification for draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh-00.txt > To: Tom Herbert <[email protected]> > > > > A new version of I-D, draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh-00.txt > has been successfully submitted by Tom Herbert and posted to the > IETF repository. > > Name: draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh > Revision: 00 > Title: IPv4 Extension Headers and UDP Encapsulated Extension Headers > Document date: 2019-02-27 > Group: Individual Submission > Pages: 27 > URL: > https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh-00.txt > Status: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh/ > Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh-00 > Htmlized: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-herbert-ipv4-udpencap-eh > > > Abstract: > This specification defines extension headers for IPv4 and a method to > encapsulate extension headers in UDP to facilitate transmission over > the Internet. The goal is to provide a uniform and feasible method of > extensibility that is shared between IPv4 and IPv6. > > > > > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > > The IETF Secretariat > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
