JINMEI Tatuya wrote:

> This example seems too specific to incorporate the extension into the
> document at this late stage.  


The lateness of this proposal was pointed out to me by Erik,
but thought I could give a shot nonetheless.

> Also, I don't get why the next header is
> so special.  


The reason is that if I am implementing a particular protocol
(e.g. SCTP), I don't want to be bothered by errors generated
for every other protocol on the node.  I would only want errors
for my particular protocol.

> If we added this, then other implementors would want
> filtering based on inner flowlabel, inner hop limit, inner source or
> destination addresses, inner extension headers...


If they are generally useful, so be it.  However, I don't know how
great the dangers are of those additional requests.

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David Lehmann                          Ulticom, Inc.
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