On 06/13/2013 12:25 AM, Joe Touch wrote: >> I want to recommend hosts not to send such packets. Hence it looks like >> std track. > > Telling them they SHOULD NOT is BCP. It's a configuration, and it's > compliant with the existing standard AFAICT, so since it's not a change > per se it wouldn't be a STD.
It's not configuration -- after all, it's the apps that are supposed to select which options they include. The current std allows for arbitrary lengths of the header chain. And we want to say "The header chain should be up to X bytes, because otherwise interoperability will be affected". Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
