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

[Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch>]

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...

IMO this kind of issue should be addressed in order to prevent
problems from arising, without waiting for potential problems
to show up.

> 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

Looks good to me.  (Belongs in 6MAN.)

Greetings,
Norbert.


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