On 06/11/2013 05:56 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> Simply saying that there can be arbitrary chaining of x bytes long does not >> benefit anyone in a practical way, afaik. > > IMHO it does; for a start it makes it clear that (say) 257 bytes of > headers have a vanishingly small chance of getting through the > network, and that's much more guidance than we give today. And it > gives hardware designers a target that seems to relate to reality.
FWIW, that's my take, as well. Cheers, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
