Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

2013-07-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 07/04/2013 01:11 PM, Francis Dupont wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: Considering the above, I guess I'm in the camp of avoid fragmentation where possible. However, I don't think I'd go as far as deprecating it. = I have private notes about the deprecation of reassembly so not

Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

2013-07-05 Thread Fernando Gont
On 06/30/2013 10:42 PM, C. M. Heard wrote: Fernando So far (and without having read Ron's recent I-D -- shame on me), it Fernando looks like the main two reasons for deprecating the fragmentation Fernando function are: Fernando Fernando 1) The inability of middle-boxes to parse past the

RE: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

2013-07-05 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
-Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Fernando Gont If you're going to deprecate something on the assumption that some implementation does something stupid about it, then I wonder what we'd be left with. -- for instance, you

Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

2013-07-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 51d6df54.9030...@si6networks.com, Fernando Gont writes: On 06/30/2013 10:42 PM, C. M. Heard wrote: Fernando So far (and without having read Ron's recent I-D -- shame on me), it Fernando looks like the main two reasons for deprecating the fragmentation Fernando function are: