Requirements for Link Adaptation over IP-in-IPv4 Tunnels (was RE: Link Adaptation for IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels)

["Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>]

Fred - please see:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-templin-linkadapt-reqts-00.txt

Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker [mailto:fred@cisco.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:24 AM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Link Adaptation for IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels 
> 
> Does it still propose a protocol or protocol change?
> 
> I don't know offhand whether the charter of v6ops then precluded  
> protocol work, and won't go into whether it was proper for [MECH] to  
> be done in v6ops. Given the present charter, I can treat it as a  
> requirements document that may be asking for something like the work  
> you are proposing. But my read of the document you pointed to 
> is that  
> it is still proposing an incompatible change (as in "unchanged  
> equipment will not perform the function and once the message is  
> segmented in this fashion it must be reassembled in this fashion.
> 
> I think that has to be done in a WG chartered to do non-backward- 
> compatible changes to IPv4.
> 
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> 
> > Can this work be contributed as an extension to [MECH]?
> >
>