On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:53 AM Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/8/2019 7:37 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>
> Isn't the general consensus to move away from fragmentation as much as
> possible?
>
> I don't believe so. There are still a lot of valid use cases for
> fragmentation. draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-09 talks about the
> current state fo fragmentation.
>
> Agreed, but if UDP supports fragmentation (it will), then we don't need that 
> capability buried in obscure layering.
>
UDP fragmentation would only with UDP, it doesn't help any other
transport protovcol. Also, I don't understand how the fragmentation
extension header, which has been defined for over twenty years and is
now part of an Internet standard, can be called "obscured layering".

Tom

> Joe

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