Hi Bob, > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bob Hinden > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:18 AM > To: Ronald Bonica > Cc: IPv6 Maintanence; Bob Hinden > Subject: Re: "Deprecate" > > Ron, > > On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Ronald Bonica <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Did I miss anything? > > > > Ron > > Yes, I think the draft (especially since is headed toward BCP) should > also include a message that PMTUD is useful and should not be blocked > by routers/firewalls/middleboxes/etc. There are lots of valid reasons > to not want to do IPv6 fragmentation, but there was a lot of discussion > about encouraging the use of PMTUD.
That's all good, but there will still be end systems that do not implement PMTUD - neither RFC1981 nor RFC4821. Plus, try as we may there will still be paths over which PTB messages will not be delivered - but I agree that we should still try. Thanks - Fred [email protected] > Bob > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
