I agree with Brian. That is why I said the text in RFC 2460 that Suresh says isn't Normative and I am quoting ad nauseum is text that deals with an important issue. The issue being, does an intermediate node inspect/process any EH besides the HBH? The text says, no, but Suresh says, this text is not Normative.
Go see IPv6 docs on the Internet and see how many docs say, an intermediate node does not inspect/process any EH besides the HBH. Some network sniffers and generators for IPv6 have such information in their product documentation! This isn't an issue one should gloss over. Some new document needs to update this fact in RFC 2460. Hemant -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:57 PM To: Suresh Krishnan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Review comments for draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-01.txt >> It was not my intention to >> specify any skip/drop behavior on the nodes. But that's exactly what IETF specs should always do, to promote interoperability. Even if the recommended behaviour is silent discard, that should always be specified IMHO. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
