On Mon, 27 May 2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 26/05/2013 20:51, Ray Hunter wrote: > > I think that is worth pointing out in the draft that "Contrary to > > RFC2460 Section 4, middleboxes, such as firewalls, load balancers or > > packet classifiers, MAY examine and process the entire IPv6 packet > > before making a decision to either forward or discard the packet." > > I'm not sure if it's really a MAY or simply a statement of what > occurs in the real world.
It should just be a statement of what occurs in the real world. The IETF should not endorse behaviours that violate IPv6 design assumptions with a standards-track MAY. I would suggest that the text be modified along the following lines: "Contrary to RFC2460 Section 4, middleboxes, such as firewalls, load balancers or packet classifiers, sometimes examine and process the entire IPv6 packet before making a decision to either forward or discard the packet." //cmh -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
