Re: draft-carpenter-6man-ext-transmit-01.txt

2013-02-17 Thread Bill Jouris
At this point, it seems like the best thing to do is draft two separate proposals: 1)   list extension headers, and 2)   a separate one to deal with firewalls and how they deal with extensions.  That way, we can get the first one thru fairly quickly (it doesn't seem like there is actually muc

Re: draft-carpenter-6man-ext-transmit-01.txt

2013-02-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/02/2013 11:37, Bob Hinden wrote: > Just to focus on one area at the moment: > >>> If an extension proves itself safe, easily parse-able, and useful, it >>> will be transported over the public Internet. If it doesn't, it will get >>> dropped. >> At the moment this is impossible. There is no

Re: draft-carpenter-6man-ext-transmit-01.txt

2013-02-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Just to focus on one area at the moment: > >> If an extension proves itself safe, easily parse-able, and useful, it >> will be transported over the public Internet. If it doesn't, it will get >> dropped. > > At the moment this is impossible. There is no place for firewall > implementors to find