Fred, I was thinking of tunnels as legacy applications, but we may need to make this explicit.
Ron > > You missed tunnels. The tunnel has no way of knowing whether the source > host is doing RFC4821-style probing, so it has no way of knowing when > to drop vs forward. All it knows is that it MUST pass packets of at > least 1280 bytes (the IPv6 minMTU), and SHOULD also pass packets of at > least 1500 bytes (the minimum size most hosts expect). For that, it > needs some form of fragmentation and reassembly, and if you want to > deprecate IPv6 fragmentation you need to replace it with something like > SEAL. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------