A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Operational Issues Associated With Long IPv6 Extension Header Chains Author(s) : Warren Kumari Joel Jaeggli Ronald P Bonica Filename : draft-wkumari-long-headers-01.txt Pages : 8 Date : 2013-07-03 Abstract: This document explains why IPv6 header chain length affects the cost of ASIC-based packet forwarding. It also explains why some network service providers discard packets with exceptionally long header chains. Finally, it identifies a reasonable header chain length. While a network service provider can enforce any filtering policy that supports its security model, a network service provider should not discard IPv6 packets based solely upon header chain length if the header chain is not longer than the value specified herein. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wkumari-long-headers There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-long-headers-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-wkumari-long-headers-01 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt