My take on this is that it is fine to show text from RFC8200 without any change 
(with a reference), but it is not good to try to summarize that text (for 
example, as in “We assume….”).

Thanks,
Bob


> On Nov 23, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Ron Bonica <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Pablo,
> 
> During the SPRING WG meeting at IETF 106, we discussed the following text 
> from Section 2 of draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-05:
> 
> “SRH: Segment Routing Header as defined in 
> [I-D.ietf-6man-segment-routing-header].  We assume that the SRH may be 
> present multiple times inside each packet.”
> 
> This text contradicts the following text from RFC 8200:
> 
> “Each extension header should occur at most once, except for the Destination 
> Options header, which should occur at most twice (once before a Routing 
> header and once before the upper-layer header).”
> 
> The following redaction reconciles the contradiction by remaining silent and 
> allowing RFC 8200 to speak for itself:
> 
> OLD>
> SRH: Segment Routing Header as defined in 
> [I-D.ietf-6man-segment-routing-header].  We assume that the SRH may be 
> present multiple times inside each packet
> <OLD
> 
> NEW>
> SRH: Segment Routing Header as defined in 
> [I-D.ietf-6man-segment-routing-header].
> <NEW
> 
> During the meeting, you mentioned the need to import some text from RFC 8200. 
> If you feel the need to do that, the follow redaction imports all relevant 
> text without bias:
> 
> OLD>
> SRH: Segment Routing Header as defined in 
> [I-D.ietf-6man-segment-routing-header].  We assume that the SRH may be 
> present multiple times inside each packet.
> <OLD
> 
> NEW>
> SRH: Segment Routing Header as defined in 
> [I-D.ietf-6man-segment-routing-header].
> 
> As per Section 4.1 of RFC 8200, the Routing header (e.g., SRH)  should occur 
> at most one inside a packet. However, IPv6 nodes must accept and attempt to 
> process extension headers in any order and occurring any number of times in 
> the same packet, except for the Hop-by-Hop Options header, which is 
> restricted to appear immediately after an IPv6 header only.
> 
> Nonetheless, it is  strongly advised that sources of IPv6 packets adhere to 
> the recommendations found in Section 4.1 of RFC 8200 until and unless 
> subsequent specifications revise those recommendation.
> <NEW
> 
>                                                                               
>           Happy Holidays,
>                                                                               
>                Ron
> 
> 
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