> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Barton [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:00 PM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: 'Fernando Gont'; [email protected]; 'Brian E Carpenter'
> Subject: Re: Fragmentation-related security issues
> 
> On 01/03/2012 11:02, Dan Wing wrote:
> > If IPv6 hosts don't handle
> > ICMP packet-too-big of less than 1280, those IPv4/IPv6 translators
> > won't work with sub-1280 MTU IPv4 paths.
> 
> ... and this is not a feature because? And no, don't quote the
> robustness principle. The floor for MTU has been hard-coded since day
> 1, so anyone who breaks that deserves what they get.

Yes, I agree, the last paragraph of 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460#section-5 has been around
a long time, and IPv6 hosts should follow it.

If there is consensus otherwise, we (the collective "we") need
to acknowledge what that breaks.

-d


> 
> 
> Doug
> 
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