At 11:55 02-10-2013, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to consider the following document: - 'Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains' <draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-08.txt> as Proposed Standard 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
This document intends to update the IPv6 specification. I looked into some code (host) which would be affected by the RFC 2119 requirement in Section 5. The code is complex as it is. I am not sure whether the requirement can be implemented without too much difficulty. I have not looked into the code which processes inbound packets.
Regards, -sm