* Brian Haberman | 2010-04-26 08:17:11 [-0400]:
>All,
> The 6MAN chairs would like feedback from the working group on
>adopting draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr as a WG item. Please send your
>comments/opinions to the mailing list (or the chairs) by May 7, 2010.
+1, to adopt this draft as a working item!
a) this draft solves _real_ world problems. The current
mechanism is broken by design and anything from being future safe!
Think about IPv6 capable devices with a lifetime of a decade like SOHO
routers, etcetera.
Current linux implementation:
net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c:ipv6_ext_hdr()
return ( (nexthdr == NEXTHDR_HOP) ||
(nexthdr == NEXTHDR_ROUTING) ||
(nexthdr == NEXTHDR_FRAGMENT) ||
(nexthdr == NEXTHDR_AUTH) ||
(nexthdr == NEXTHDR_NONE) ||
(nexthdr == NEXTHDR_DEST) );
b) the final standard should update RFC2460 and it should mentioned that
this extension header should be used.
HGN
PS: why does the document do not mentioned the authentication extention
header?
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