In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:39:00 +0530), Srinivas Goud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> I do agree with your points, but if you loot at rfc3775, it says that > > " The use of IPsec Authentication Header (AH) for the Home Address option is > not required, except that if the IPv6 header of a packet is covered by AH, > then the authentication MUST also cover the Home Address option; this > coverage is achieved automatically by the definition of the Option Type code > for the Home Address option, since it indicates that the data within the > option cannot change en route to the packet's final destination, and thus > the option is included in the AH computation." > > from the above, it is satisfactory that final destination option cannot be > mutable. > any opinions? No. It is only a instance of destination options. Because it is possible to have other destination option(s), you cannot assume that "final" destination option is not mutable just by its position. --yoshfuji -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
