A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Why Operators Filter Fragments and What It Implies
Author(s) : Joel Jaeggli
Lorenzo Colitti
Warren Kumari
Eric Vyncke
Merike Kaeo
Tom Taylor
Filename : draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop-00.txt
Pages : 7
Date : 2012-10-15
Abstract:
This memo is written to make application developers and network
operators aware of the significant probability that IPv6 packets
containing fragmentation extension headers will fail to reach their
destination. Some assumptions about the ability to use TCP or UDP
datagrams larger than a single packet may accordingly need
adjustment. This memo provides observational evidence for the
dropping of IPv6 fragments along a significant number of paths,
explores the operational impact of fragmentation and the reasons why
dropping occurs, and considers the effect of fragment dropping on
applications particularly including DNS.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-taylor-v6ops-fragdrop-00
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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