Le 16 avr. 2010 à 21:43, Suresh Krishnan a écrit : >> 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 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 therefore support that this draft should become asap a 6man WG document. > > As James chimed in, we let the draft expire because there was no clear > consensus in the WG as to the need to define new extension headers.
Your draft, which has authors from Ericsson, Cisco, Google, Symantec, covers per se a wide spectrum of industrial perspectives. What would be needed to differ its adoption would be, IMHO, arguments showing that it mighgt be harmful. AFAIK, no such argument exists. On the contrary, Stig Venaas wrote on 2010-04-16: "It's clear to me that this draft is needed. Ever since I wrote some packet analyzer code many years ago and realized I couldn't handle unknown IPv6 options in a good way (that is, ignoring them and still finding the transport header)." > We have addressed all the comments received from the WG in the last version > the draft. > We can refresh the draft and request the chairs for adoption, provided we see > somebody trying to define or seeing a need to define a new extension header. Waiting for this new extension header to be found useful would be IMHO a DESIGN MISTAKE: if and when such an extension is found useful, it will be too late because ALL codes that look for ports will need to be upgraded before deployment of the new extension. If the 6man chair may accept a resubmission as WG draft in view of the recent discussion on this list (i.e. significant interest expressed, and no objection), this would be the best. If this isn't possible, your reviving the draft would leave a chance to finally solve a real problem. Cheers, RD -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
