On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM Ron Bonica <rbonica=
40juniper....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> (4) Please specify what the *receiver* action should be if the new length
> field
> does not equal the sum of component objects. Is this malformed message
> to be sliently discarded, the extension to be ignored (and what about
> any following extensions), or something else?
> (The TSV-ART review has more text that might be useful background).
>
> [RB] I have added the following text:
>
> [RB]    The receiver MUST silently discard an ICMP message in the
> following
>     conditions:
>

Can we instead just pretend the ICMP extension isn't present if it's
malformed, but allow processing the ICMP message? If someone has a bug in
their extension generation, that'd be a bummer to completely prevent
traceroute or path-MTU discovery from working.

Thanks,
  Bill
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