RE: [v6ops] draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop WGLC

2013-08-18 Thread Sheng Jiang
Reading this document made me believe that fragment should NOT be deprecated and the support for fragment would be better in long-term. I personally agree on such observations and conclusions. I support the publication of this document. Thanks authors for gather these value information. Sheng

RE: UDP+Fragmentation (was: "Deprecate")

2013-08-18 Thread C. M. Heard
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Templin, Fred L wrote: > One other thing for now is that Mike's proposal doesn't even > address the attack vector that 'draft-bonica-6man-frag-deprecate' > is concerned about. To address the tiny fragment concern, the > protocol must ensure that tiny fragments cannot ever be cre

RE: UDP+Fragmentation (was: "Deprecate")

2013-08-18 Thread C. M. Heard
Greetings, Chiming in a bit late, I have a few things to add to the thread: 1.) Ron's paraphrase below captures my intent precisely. 2.) As Fred points out (and as I mentioned in my original post), it is possible that some middleboxes will filter UDP datagrams with UDP Length > L4 leng