Hi, I agree with Suresh here. > > > > 3. RFC 2460 clearly says in section 4 that EH's are not processed by > > intermediate nodes unless the EH is a hop-by-hop EH. Since your draft > > ignores this rule of RFC 2460, it's up to the IPv6 community to first > > agree to such a change to RFC 2460 before looking at your draft. > > I am not sure I understand what you mean. The draft does not recommend > anybody to look at the EHs other than the HBH. The draft says that, if > someone does (e.g. firewalls and other middleboxes) it makes sense to > have a standard header format. Not that I condone it, but this paradigm > (of routers being L3 only devices) has been broken long time ago. Every > router I know of has the capability to look at and filter at least on > the transport layer port.
Not just for middle-boxes, but for a simple function like doing ECMP load balancing we need to look up the upper layer headers (TCP/ UDP). That said I would encourage the work on HBH too. On a similar note have a look at the "Tiny Fragements" draft I had put across some while back: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manral-v6ops-tiny-fragments-issues-02 Thanks, Vishwas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
