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 PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------