Hi Bob,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hinden [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 9:38 AM
> To: Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]>
> Cc: Bob Hinden <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Int-area] Tunnels and Fragmentation
> 
> Fred,
> 
> > On Apr 16, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Templin (US), Fred L 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, two important documents in this wg have been sitting idle for a long 
> > time and
> > perhaps it is time to start moving them forward again. The documents are: 
> > "IP
> > Fragmentation Considered Fragile", and "IP Tunnels in the Internet 
> > Architecture":
> >
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile/
> 
> This doc is in the RFC Editor queue waiting for another document, it’s not 
> “sitting idle".  It is essentially done.  The referenced
> document (draft-fairhurst-tsvwg-datagram-plpmtud) looks like it was approved 
> by the IESG recently, it’s state is "Approved-
> announcement to be sent::Point Raised - writeup needed”.  Should be done soon.

Hold the phone. We now have a  robust and useful case for IPv6 fragmentation 
when
applied to tunnels. Can we still update frag-fragile before it gets published? 
Or, do we
have to wait and update it *after* it gets published? I would prefer before, 
because
allowing to publish as-is with knowledge that an important update is coming just
perpetuates the undeserved bad name given to fragmentation 33 years ago.

Also, what about intarea-tunnels? That one shows up as expired, but shouldn't we
dust it off for publication too (after updating to accommodate new findings)?

Thanks - Fred

> Bob
> 
> 
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-tunnels/
> >
> > What has changed is that we now have  a spec for robust fragmentation over 
> > tunnels
> > while supporting a 9180 MTU (actually MRU) plus lossless path MTU 
> > discovery. The
> > spec is known as the Overlay Multilink Network (OMNI) Interface:
> >
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-omni-interface/
> >
> > So, what I think needs to happen is for authors of the two intarea drafts 
> > to review
> > the OMNI spec and update their documents accordingly. Then, maybe we can get
> > a few docs published?
> >
> > Thanks - Fred
> >
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