I have the similar concern. Especially in the softwire context, fragmentation is always an important consideration when developing various tunneling mechanisms.
B.R. Bing > -----Original Message----- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Templin, Fred L > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 7:02 AM > To: Ronald Bonica > Cc: ipv6@ietf.org 6man-wg > Subject: RE: FW: New Version Notification for > draft-bonica-6man-frag-deprecate-00.txt > > Hi, > > Deprecation of IPv6 fragmentation would make life difficult for IPv6 > tunnels. For tunnels that span paths with ~1280 MTUs, the tunnel ingress' > only option is to fragment since it is not permitted to return a PTB with > MTU less than 1280. See RFC2473 for example of a normative specification > that depends on IPv6 fragmentation. > > Thanks - Fred > fred.l.temp...@boeing.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
