> From: EXT Steve Deering

> Alternatively, we could specify that any mutable options that appear
> after the AH header are treated as if they were immutable, i.e.,
> included in the authentication computation.  Such options,
> though mutable,
> would not undergo mutation, so could safely be treated as
> immutable by AH.

At least I definitely prefer this approach (this is the way I have it
implemented).

AH (nor any other extension header) should not care what follows after it,
it's just payload at that stage.

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