On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2/8/2016 1:27 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 2/8/2016 12:44 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >>>> Seems to me that we might be misreading the original proposal. There >>>> are two ways to read it: >>>> >>>> 1) In future all Internet routing gear MUST NOT fragment IP packets. >>> >>> IPv6 is that future, FWIW. >> >> Hopefully yes. >> >> But is it written down anywhere that IPv6 routers MUST accept packets >> up to the full IP payload? The conversation in this thread suggests >> not. > > RFC2460 specifies both relaying and source/sink requirements. So the shorter answer to the original question would be that fragmentation is already deprecated. Since IPv4 infrastructure is still with us, we are nowhere close to removing legacy support for fragmentation. There is however still no simple way to know if the level of routing gear I buy for the house (cheaper office type) is well behaved or not. Problem is that we tend to leave that to IEEE. Which made sense in the days when non-IP ethernet was still an issue.