In your letter dated Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:28:53 +0100 you wrote: >On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:17 +0200, Philip Homburg wrote: >> >> PMTU blackhole detection seemed so obvious to me, that I never bothered to >> find out if there was an RFC specifying that it should be done. > >Conversely... > >It's always been *so* obvious to me that firewalling ICMP is broken, >that I never bothered to find out of there was an RFC specifying that it >shouldn't be done. > >Perhaps *that* is what should be discussed, instead?
I think that's fine. I can understand the argument that breaking things causes bugs to be resolved. On the other hand, the difference between 1500 and 1280 is so small, I wonder if breaking things just because you want to send packets at 1500 bytes makes a lot of sense. One other thing, if this makes the IPv6 experience worse than industry standard for IPv4, then maybe it is also not a good idea. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
