Ole,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ole Troan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 9:35 AM
> To: Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joe Touch <[email protected]>; Ron Bonica 
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; IESG
> <[email protected]>; Joel Halpern <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]; Suresh Krishnan
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Discussion about Section 6.1 in 
> draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile
> 
> >>>>> And of course encapsulation can also exacerbate the problem
> >>>>> by increasing packet size.
> >
> > All this means is that the fragmentation layer needs to take into account 
> > the
> > size of the outer encapsulation layers that will be added and make sure its
> > fragments do not exceed 1280 bytes *after* encapsulation. So, e.g., if the
> > encapsulation layer adds an IPv6 header and a UDP header the fragmentation
> > layer should not produce fragments larger than 1280 - 40 - 8 = 1232. If the
> > fragmentation layer does not know the size of the outer encapsulations to
> > be added, it can overestimate and set a safe smaller value (e.g., 1024).
> 
> Yes, absolutely. But I don't think we are talking about IP fragmentation any 
> more.

No - it is simply RFC8200-standard IPv6 fragmentation - not something else.

Fred

> Cheers,
> Ole

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