The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to consider the following document: - 'Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments Considered Harmful' <draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-07.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-08-22. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document discusses the security implications of the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments and a number of interoperability issues associated with IPv6 atomic fragments, and concludes that the aforementioned functionality is undesirable, thus documenting the motivation for removing this functionality in the revision of the core IPv6 protocol specification. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
