On Apr 1, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote:
> Which? African or European Swallows? > > (Watches Chad fly over the cliff edge) ;-) So the RFC needed more text in it's Security Considerations section, too... > > > Owen > > On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Chad Dailey wrote: > >> Swallows have MTU issues. >> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: >> >> On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: >> >> > >> > On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:41 11AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: >> > >> >> I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on. Now I know. So >> >> if a v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram does that count as packet loss or >> >> tunneling? >> >> >> >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/ >> >> >> > >> > I was disappointed in this RFC -- Section 3.1 didn't include the proper >> > discussion of the difference between African and European avian carriers, >> > and we know what happens if that question is asked at the wrong time. >> >> >> > >> > >> > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> That applies to swallows. I'm not sure pidgeons pose the same issue. I think >> in general, swallows >> provide poor platforms for avian transport of IP datagrams. >> >> >> Owen >> >> >> >> >