Re: AW: Is there an official Extension Headers List?

2012-05-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I agree with that, but we seem to have a small problem. RFC 2460 says that unrecognized extension headers should lead to a discard and an ICMP Parameter Problem message, and RFC 6434 confirms this - but without adding the extension headers defined since RFC 2460. Thus the Internet is partially

Re: Is there an official Extension Headers List?

2012-05-23 Thread Ole Trøan
Brian, I agree with that, but we seem to have a small problem. RFC 2460 says that unrecognized extension headers should lead to a discard and an ICMP Parameter Problem message, and RFC 6434 confirms this - but without adding the extension headers defined since RFC 2460. Thus the Internet

Re: Is there an official Extension Headers List?

2012-05-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-23 08:47, Ole Trøan wrote: Brian, I agree with that, but we seem to have a small problem. RFC 2460 says that unrecognized extension headers should lead to a discard and an ICMP Parameter Problem message, and RFC 6434 confirms this - but without adding the extension headers

RE: draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format

2012-05-23 Thread mohamed.boucadair
Dear all, Many thanks for the individuals who read the draft and provided some comment. My read of the the answers received in this thread is there is no strong reasons to question the design choices as documented in the draft. FWIW, I just submitted a updated version taking into account the

Re: draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format

2012-05-23 Thread Bob Hinden
Med, On May 23, 2012, at 6:20 AM, mohamed.boucad...@orange.com mohamed.boucad...@orange.com wrote: Dear all, Many thanks for the individuals who read the draft and provided some comment. My read of the the answers received in this thread is there is no strong reasons to question the

RE: draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format

2012-05-23 Thread mohamed.boucadair
Dear Bob, Yes, I read that message. It is one of reasons I added two appendixes to explain: * Why an Address Format is Needed for Multicast IPv4-IPv6 Interconnection? (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format-02#appendix-A.1) * Why Identifying an IPv4-Embedded