On 01/03/2012 10:22 PM, Dan Wing wrote:
>> ... and this is not a feature because? And no, don't quote the
>> robustness principle. The floor for MTU has been hard-coded since day
>> 1, so anyone who breaks that deserves what they get.
> 
> Yes, I agree, the last paragraph of 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460#section-5 has been around
> a long time, and IPv6 hosts should follow it.
> 
> If there is consensus otherwise, we (the collective "we") need
> to acknowledge what that breaks.

It would be pretty dumb to break stuff with no gains. -- Particularly
when there are lots of things to tighten up (which *do* have security
implications).

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com
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