If the content is not understood by anyone except the intended endpoint
the occasional misdelivery is surely of no consequence.
There's still a risk of port pollution (IPv4) or destination pollution
(IPv6)from misdeliveries without checksums.
not understood != not handled and pushed up the stack.
Lloyd Wood lloyd(_dot_)wood(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk
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From: Stewart Bryant <stbryant(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc(_dot_)lists(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>; Alexey
Eromenko <al4321(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Cc: ietf <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>; Jared Mauch
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Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 10:04
Subject: Re: Checksum at IP layer - is it even needed ?
On 14/12/2015 21:55, Christopher Morrow wrote:
I suppose: "Why are we trying to solve this in tcp/udp? why not solve
this at the application layer with TLS?" .
Yes, I was wondering about this.
If the content is not understood by anyone except the intended endpoint
the occasional misdelivery is surely of no consequence.
Stewart