Greetings,

I'm pretty happy with what I see in the new revision.  It now treats 
extension headers and options on an equal footing, leaving the 
specification of protocol requirements (including configuration 
defaults) to standards-track documents and concentrating on advice 
for what configuration options operators should choose.  The 
standards-track document for extension headers is RFC 7045, and the 
authors have submitted a draft to 6man to cover IPv6 options:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-6man-ipv6-opt-transmit

Folks who are interested in draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering will 
doubtless want to look at that draft too.

As far as I can see, the major substantive things that need to be 
done before draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering is ready for prime 
time are to fill in the TBDs.  These mainly deal with specific 
security implications, but in the case of three hop-by-hop options 
(SMF_DPD, MPL, IP_DFF) there are some additional gaps.  Here is the 
full list of gaps:

EH: Mobility, HIP, Shim6
HbH (a): Jumbo Payload, RPL
HbH (b) SMF_DPD, MPL, IP_DFF [also needs impact if blocked and advice]
Dest: Tunnel Encapsulation Limit, Home Address, EID, ILNP Nonce, Line ID

The three EHs mentioned above are basically upper-layer protocols 
with the ability to tunnel another ULP (though in the cases of 
Mobility and HIP this capability is for further study -- the specs 
require that they contain a Next Header type of No Next Header).  
The security considerations of the respective specs (RFCs 5201, 
6275, and 5553) seem to provide the necessary information to craft 
specific security implication text.  If I have time in the next 
couple of weeks I'll see if I can propose something, assuming that 
the authors (or other interested parties) do not beat me to it.

I also noticed one nit:

3.3.2.4.  Operational and Interoperability Impact if Blocked

   Blocking packets containing a RHT0 or RTH1 has no operational

s/RTH1/RHT1/

//cmh

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> We have posted a revision
> (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-02.txt)
> of the aforementioned document, that addresses all the comments we have
> received so far.
> 
> Any further comments will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Fernando (and co-authors)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: New Version Notification for
> draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-02.txt
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:21:14 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: Will(Shucheng) Liu <[email protected]>, Shucheng LIU (Will)
> <[email protected]>, Fernando Gont <[email protected]>, Ron
> Bonica <[email protected]>, Fernando Gont <[email protected]>,
> Ronald P. Bonica <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> A new version of I-D, draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-02.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Fernando Gont and posted to the
> IETF repository.
> 
> Name:         draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering
> Revision:     02
> Title:                Recommendations on Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing 
> IPv6
> Extension Headers
> Document date:        2014-08-26
> Group:                Individual Submission
> Pages:                30
> URL:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-02.txt
> Status:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering/
> Htmlized:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-02
> Diff:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-02
> 
> Abstract:
>    This document provides advice on the filtering of IPv6 packets based
>    on the IPv6 Extension Headers and the IPv6 options they contain.
>    Additionally, it discusses the operational and interoperability
>    implications of discarding packets based on the IPv6 Extension
>    Headers and IPv6 options they contain.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
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> 
> The IETF Secretariat
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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