Francis

Francis Dupont wrote:
> 
>    If so, how can a user specify a couple of destination
>    options headers before and after a routing header?
> 
> => he cannot but he doesn't need it and he cannot specify
> a destination option header just before a fragmentation header.
> IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS is unnecessary and misleading.
> 
...
>    >  - 12: see 9.2
> 
>    (again) I'm not 100% sure about the point.  Do you propose to remove
>    IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS from this section, too?  (If we can reach consensus
>    in 9.2, I'll of course revise this section accordingly.)
> 
> => yes, please remove IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS from everywhere.

Why do you belive the IPV6_RTHDRDSTOPTS is unnecessary?
Is it because of the lack of options that would go into this header?
Or is it because of the restrictive ordering (i.e 2460 recomended ordering)?

-vlad

P.S.
>From what I remember of the discussion about header ordering constraints was
to stabilize this API and then figure something out that would not be
restrictive.

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