Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-mech-v2-00.txt

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

>     Total Length:
>        Payload length from IPv6 header plus length of IPv6 and
>        IPv4 headers plus length of optional padding (i.e., IPv6
>        payload length plus a minimum of 60 bytes)

I don't understand the motivation for your suggestion.

The document doesn't talk about any optional padding.
Are you proposing that we add the ability to optionally pad
the packets as part of encapsulating them?

What problem would allowing optional padding solve?

  Erik