Hi Ole,

> If I own and manage three routers, R1 -- R2 -- R3.
> You are saying that if R1 sends a packet to R3, it is not allowed to off-load 
> some functions to R2?
> Going to be difficult to do stuff like service chaining then.

This bit I don't mind that much, but what about:

R1 -- R2 -- [open internet] -- R3
or
R1 -- [open internet] -- R2 -- R3
or even
R1 -- [open internet] -- R2 -- [open internet] -- R3

And what if you're an ISP and R1 is your customer's device? It is in your 
routing domain but not in your administrative domain. What then?

> When putting in the restrictions in RFC8200, which makes a lot of sense on 
> the open Internet, it was always clear that there could and would be 
> exceptions to this. Those are the ones we are discussing now.

This has never been clear to me. Quite the opposite actually…
There was a reason the text discussing this was tightened while RFC8200 was 
still a draft.

> Conflating the two use cases and claiming that the arguments for why it's a 
> bad idea on the open Internet also applies to a limited domain, only serves 
> to polarise the debate.

The problem is in the definition (and viability) of a domain.

> My suspicion is that the header insertion argument is a straw-man.

Not to me. I care about my packets not being mangled by a third party (my ISP). 
If there is a way that they can mangle the packet and restore it to its 
original 100% of the time before a box outside the ISP network is able to see 
it (for debugging or whatever) then I don't mind. I care about observable 
behaviour, and whether my ISP uses MPLS, SR or something else isn't my problem. 
But the moment the packet leaves their network it'd better be exactly as I sent 
it. And the way the domain is defined, as well as the operator experience with 
limited domains, points to potential leaks.

Cheers,
Sander

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