> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Krishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

> > I agree with you that a receiver may process the EH's in any order
> > except the HBH EH. 
> 
> No. The receiver MUST process the extension headers in the order they 
> appear. Please see the following text from RFC2460
> 
> 
> > Yes, my concern with text from Suresh's draft was indeed 
> that HBH was not mentioned with 
> > 
> > " o  Extension headers must be processed in any order they appear"
> 
> I already suggested replacement text for this in my earlier mail. Did 
> you not receive it? Anyway the intent of this text was to say
> 
> " o  Extension headers must be processed in any order they appear"

Why isn't the wording in RFC 2460 even clearer? Quoting:

   Therefore, extension headers must
   be processed strictly in the order they appear in the packet; a
   receiver must not, for example, scan through a packet looking for a
   particular kind of extension header and process that header prior to
   processing all preceding ones.

Bert
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