Brian E Carpenter wrote: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-6man-ext-transmit/ > > There was some discussion of this draft when it came out, but nothing > that led to any specific changes. We should perhaps emphasise that > it's complementary to draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain. > > I'd like to ask for opinions about taking this draft forward. > > I won't be in Orlando, but the other author (Sheng) will be. > > Regards > Brian > > You can write what you like about firewalls needing to have an explicit policy configured (manually) before dropping any packets. And this standard will then (quite rightly) be ignored by every single firewall manufacturer I know.
If an extension proves itself safe, easily parse-able, and useful, it will be transported over the public Internet. If it doesn't, it will get dropped. regards, RayH -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
