Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc1981bis-04.txt> (Path MTU Discovery f

On 2017-2-3, at 3:00, Fernando Gont <fgont(_at_)si6networks(_dot_)com> wrote:
> My apologies: my comments were probably misleading. Certainly, this
> document is simply RFC1981 to Std, and hence recommending RFC4821 would
> be kind of ou of scope, here.
>
> That say, one might wonder to what extent, and for the general Internet,
> RFC1981 can be considered succesful (given the filtering of ICMP
> messages). -- i.e., at this point in time you wouldn't rely on RFC1981
> (icmp-based pmtud) for path-mtu discovery.
What Fernando said: I'm certainly not opposed to lifting this to Standard, but 
it is painting an incorrect picture - PLPMTUD is de facto mandatory these days, 
and has been for years.

Lars

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