On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Enno Rey <[email protected]> wrote: >> I see *large* variable length headers, in combination with complex >> parsing rules, as the problem. > > (*large* variable headers) exactly, plus fragmentation
Fragmentation is not specific to IPv6, is it? And, as the fragment header itself is just 8 bytes (AFAIR, too lazy to check ;)) - I'd not classify it as *large* variable header. > and "ambiguities" wrt fragmentable vs. unfragmentable part and how headers > point to the next one once there's a cut between them due to fragmentation. > the, what we consider, "problem space" is much larger, unfortunately. Has not RFC7112 addressed this particular problem? -- SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry
