Works for me.

//cmh

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Ronald Bonica wrote:
> I am happy to set the pointer field to 0 if Mike agrees.
> 
>                             Ron
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ole Troan [mailto:otr...@employees.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:56 AM
> > To: Ronald Bonica
> > Cc: C.M.Heard; IPv6
> > Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-
> > chain-04>
> > 
> > > This works, too. But now we have three participants in the discussion
> > and three opinions!
> > >
> > > Let's just pick one! Does anybody have a coin?
> > 
> > who calls "edge"? ;-)
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Ole
> > 
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf
> > >> Of Ole Troan
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:37 AM
> > >> To: C.M.Heard
> > >> Cc: IPv6
> > >> Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-
> > >> chain-04>
> > >>
> > >>> The reason I didn't suggest pointing at the Fragment Header is
> > >> because
> > >>> it would carry the same information that it would in a correctly
> > >>> fragmented packet, namely M=1 and Fragment Offset=0 (the signature
> > >>> of an initial fragment).  The Payload Length field is what
> > indicates
> > >> that
> > >>> the fragment is too short to contain all the extension headers and
> > >> the
> > >>> upper layer header; its value would have to be different in a
> > >>> legitimate packet.  Hence my suggestion to point there.
> > >>
> > >> or set the pointer field to 0? given that there really isn't an
> > octet
> > >> offset where an error has been detected.
> > >>
> > >> cheers,
> > >> Ole
> > >
> 
> 
> 
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