> I would assume that any type of tunneling would be allowed (e.g., GRE),
> and agree that it would be useful to enumerate at least general
> situations where the SHOULD can be ignored.

Agreed.

> I perused draft-hui-6man-rpl-headers and it appears to describe how to
> insert/remove the RPL routing header at the RPL network border.  Would
> you prefer if the exception alluded to above via reference to that draft
> be explicitly included in this draft?

I don't immediatly see the value of the draft-hui-6man-rpl-headers at
all. It seems incomplete.

Is this intended to be standards track? 

Seems to me, there there are some (important) gaps. As such, the
document isn't useful.

For example, Section 3 talks about the mechanics of how to restore a
packet (by removing headers) in some cases. How on earth is a node
supposed to know it needs to do this? How can it distinguish between a
packet that was properly created by the originating node (i.e., is
fully compliant with existing routing header rules) vs. one where an
intermediate router took shortcuts because it didn't want to do
tunneling?

Is there an assumption this is all manually configured somehow? Or?

Thomas
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