Hi, Mike, Thanks again for your feedback! Comments in-line....
On 08/21/2014 11:53 AM, C. M. Heard wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Fernando Gont wrote: >> On 08/20/2014 04:20 PM, C. M. Heard wrote: >>> Alternative advice: >>> Intermediate systems should discard packets containing these >>> extension headers. This policy could be overridden in specific >>> environments where the experimental headers are used. >> >> The thing is that "this policy could be overriden.." sounds a bit like >> defining configuration defaults. mm.. how about: >> >> Intermediate systems should discard packets containing these >> extension headers. Only in in specific scenarios in which >> experiments are to be performed, an operator may want to permit >> these extension headers. > > That works for me (as do the other tweaks of a similar nature that > you suggested). I suggested the text "This policy could be > overridden ..." because it appeared elsewhere in the draft. If you > don't like it here, you may want to do a "search and destroy" > mission to root it out in other places where it appears. It would work for *me*. But I guess tweaking the text a bit might avoid confusion to others.. -- I will proceed with the search & destroy as indicated. :-) >>> General comment on Section 4, advice about options: should the >>> advice be nuanced to distinguish between cases where an option >>> appears in a Hop-by-Hop option header vs a Destination Options >>> header? >> >> Yes. Even if te advice ends up being the same. I will check if there are >> any options (other than the padding ones) that cane be included in >> different EH types (of the top of my head, most of the options are meant >> for specific EH types). > > As far as I could tell, the padding options are the only ones that > are allowed to appear in both kinds of option extension headers. So I guess that for the most part, there's no need of a "per-EH-type" kind of policy for IPv6 options? Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 _______________________________________________ OPSEC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsec
