just to get down a level from meta-
If the right answer is to allow packet modifications that break PMTUD
and IPsec/AH, let's do it, but let's also say we're doing it.
obvious imiho
I happen to think it's the wrong answer, but that's my problem.
i share it, but this is at the border of my expertise. i have this
fantasy of pmtu actually working before i retire. i realize it is
unrealistic.
Leaving the text open to interpretation would make a mockery of
promoting it to Standard.
agree. but v6 specs seem to like wussing out and leaving the
opportunity to do wrong things. i'll bet you a reuben at the corned
beef factory in chicago that the next try at the addressing architecture
still does not *unambiguously* state cidr except for slaac.
randy