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

["Erik Kline" <ekline@ekline.com>]

On 12/4/07, Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

This seems like a pretty useful thing to me, actually.  Are you
considering reproposing it to 6man for discussion?  +1 from me for
re-starting the discussion.