On 3/9/19 18:41, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Fernando Gont [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 7:50 AM
>> To: Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]>; Joe Touch 
>> <[email protected]>; Alissa Cooper <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Joel Halpern <[email protected]>; 
>> [email protected]; [email protected]; The IESG 
>> <[email protected]>;
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on 
>> draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
>>
>> On 3/9/19 17:33, Templin (US), Fred L wrote:
>>> Why was this section taken out:
>>>
>>>> 1.1.  IP-in-IP Tunnels
>>>>
>>>>    This document acknowledges that in some cases, packets must be
>>>>    fragmented within IP-in-IP tunnels [I-D.ietf-intarea-tunnels].
>>>>    Therefore, this document makes no additional recommendations
>>>>    regarding IP-in-IP tunnels.
>>>
>>> Tunnels always inflate the size of packets to the point that they may exceed
>>> the path MTU even if the original packet is no larger than the path MTU. 
>>> And,
>>> for IPv6 the only guarantee is 1280. Therefore, in order to robustly support
>>> the minimum IPv6 MTU tunnels MUST employ fragmentation.
>>
>> Isn't that an oxymoron? If fragmentation is fragile, if you need
>> something robust, you need to rely on something else....
> 
> IPv6 fragmentation is not fragile - only IPv4 fragmentation is fragile.

* RFC7872.
* https://blog.apnic.net/2017/08/22/dealing-ipv6-fragmentation-dns/

These seems pretty fragile to me. YMMV, though.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: [email protected]
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