I raised the issue of the limitations imposed by RFC 7112 during the course of 
this saga – it’s on the list of things that were bluntly and shamelessly 
ignored without a single comment before this document mysteriously was declared 
to be moving forward out of last call on the basis of some +1’s.

Thanks

Andrew


From: ietf <[email protected]> on behalf of Joseph Touch 
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, 1 March 2020 at 05:21
To: Fernando Gont <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Internet 
Architecture Board <[email protected]>, Internet Area <[email protected]>, IETF 
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Int-area] Is IPv6 End-to-End? R.I.P. Architecture? (Fwd: Errata 
#5933 for RFC8200)




On Feb 29, 2020, at 5:46 PM, Fernando Gont 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I did look at the protocols involved here; the ingress does add headers but 
doesn’t appear to handle fragmentation.
That’s a non-starter if you want your packets to traverse a network because 
people WILL hand you 1280-byte packets, so what will you do?

FWIW, we have been insisting on this point (and others) since they first tried 
to push EH insertion in draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header.

THey removed it from *that* document, but they keep trying to push similar 
ideas in other documents.

Well its seems simple to me - they need a plan for fragmentation or it’s simply 
a nonstarter because they can’t support 1280-B packets traversing the network.

No amount of “but this is what the user wants” translates to “they want their 
packets dropped silently”.

Joe
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