> Since then, we have seen the boom and subsequent bust of the > Internet revolution. It would be a far stretch to say that this all > came as result of the path MTU discovery decisions, but I do > believe it fair to say that a harmful precedent was set: ...
> So, where does this leave us today? We have an unreliable, > untrustworthy (and, frankly, noisy) network-based mechanism > that only works when forwarding nodes get involved with > inspecting IPv4 packet headers. ... Well, I wouldn't want to be responsible for any further destruction of the Internet revolution, but most of this seems besides the point. Old-style PMTUD, which *depended* on the delivery of ICMPs, is a far cry from new-style PMTUD, which *can benefit* from the delivery of ICMPs. The problem was the PMTU algorithm, not the idea of ICMPs. And the network isn't full of useless ICMPs. Eddie -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
