> On 4 Feb 2022, at 23:11, Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The obvious concern with this > approach is that vendors might burn in the protocol into hardware, > however I believe this problem is adequately mitigated by the various > programmable hardware techniques (note that while software programmed > protocols will solve the problem of quickly deploying new L3/L4 > protocols, changing L1/L2 characteristics like larger MTU still > requires hardware change). Burnt into hardware that will never support packets larger than 64kB doesn’t sound like a problem to me. O. -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
