On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Fernando Gont wrote:
> On 11/28/2017 12:43 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>
>> C. M. Heard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>    > It seems to me that the option description and filtering advice given in
>>    > 
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-04#section-4.3.4
>>
>> a) it only covers 0x63, and we are changing to 0x23.
>> b) yes, the advice to drop is not good.
>>
>> I'm unclear from a quick read if this the black-list advice, or the
>> white-list advice.
>
> This is meant to be black-list advice. The current advice in our
> document is to drop packets with this option at non-RPL routers. Isn't
> this advice aligned with the fact that the option type bits note that
> nodes that do not support this option should drop the corresponding packets?

The option type is being changed from 0x63 to 0x23 precisely so
that non-RPL routers will NOT drop packets with that option.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-useofrplinfo-21,
which has recently been submitted to the IESG for publication.

Thanks

Mike Heard

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