RE: draft-ietf-v6ops-cpe-simple-security-00

["Suresh Krishnan" <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com>]

Hi James,

> Perhaps, the 6MAN working group could be persuaded to declare a  
> particular format for future extension headers that are expected to  
> have a cleartext "next header" field that packet filters can  
> process?  I'm not sure how much of a problem this is really going to  
> cause, though...

I wrote a draft about this in the old ipv6 wg. Everyone said it was a good idea but it was too late. Take a look at it and let me know if this helps in any way

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-00

Thanks
Suresh