On Apr 16, 2010, at 02:44, Rémi Després wrote: > > I don't know exactly what the status of draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-08 is > today, but it this proposal has IMHO to become quickly a standard-track RFC:
The draft was presented most recently at IETF-72 Dublin. >From the minutes <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/6man/minutes?item=minutes72.html>: >> >> Extension Headers, Suresh Krishnan >> ================================== >> Document: draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-03.txt >> Slides: Extension Headers, 6man-6.pdf >> >> Suresh reported on the update to the extension headers draft. >> He addressed all comments received except for the "who is >> going to use extension headers?" comment. The point of this >> document is "if you use them, this is how you do it". A number >> of issues were addressed in the update. The remaining open >> issue is backwards compatibility. Extension headers may alter >> processing. A packet cannot be processed by older >> implementations that don't understand the extension header. >> The standard approach for dealing with this issue is >> recommending that implementations do not process >> unrecognized extension headers. There was a question about >> who is responsible for the IPv6 API? It is currently an >> informational RFC. It falls within the domain of the POSIX >> standards community, but they have not taken it up yet. We can >> only give recommendations to the POXIX community. Brian >> Haberman concluded the discussion by asking Suresh to revise >> the document and ask the mailing list for consensus. [continuing quote from Rémi] > > - The ability of skipping an extension header in a node that doesn't know it > is clearly needed. > - This need should have been satisfied in the original IPv6 specification. I was present in the room for the discussion. I don't think the audience recognized as clear a need for this draft as the nominal authors did. The meeting adjourned moments later without the working group taking up the draft as a work item. -- james woodyatt <j...@apple.com> member of technical staff, communications engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
