Tom,
We're talking at cross-purposes here. This is a descriptive
Informational draft. Its aim is to describe a specific problem set
relating to an ipv6 protocol component.
Tom Herbert wrote on 22/02/2021 14:55:
Yes, different routers do different things, but can you quantify what
the most commonly deployed routers do? If we can do that then we could
establish a better requirement for host stacks more than just "don't
send IPv6 header chains that are too long".
... which proposes to turn the draft into a prescriptive draft, i.e. to
advise on what protocol implementers should do.
We totally get the value proposition of what you're suggesting, but it
doesn't belong in this draft. Establishing workable limits is both
difficult and subjective, which is why our proposal is that it should be
in a future draft which would probably end up being a BCP.
Nick
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