On 3/7/2019 9:03 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> 1) Allow IPv4 to carry IPv6 extension header numbers in the protocol
> field, and process as IPv4 extension headers.

I heard someone on another list argue strongly for fixed headers of the
sort IPv4 already uses. ;-)

> 2) Encapsulate extension headers and following transport packet in GUE/UDP

Which, as I noted, undermines the useful work performed by firewalls.

All so we can have routers process options - something they basically
don't do anyway...(I don't know who's pushing otherwise in 6man, but
this issue has been a big one for *many* years)

Joe

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