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Re: IETF Last Call conclusion for draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08

2017-03-31 13:19:28
Robert,

Actually this was thoroughly discussed (mainly with Stefano I think)
and these texts in draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header-06 were
carefully designed to be compatible with both RFC2460 and RFC2460bis:

Section 2.3.1:
 The outer header with the SRH is no different from any other
 tunneling encapsulation mechanism and allows a network operator to
 implement traffic engineering mechanisms so to efficiently steer
 traffic across his infrastructure.
 
Section 5.1:
 A Source SR Node can be any node originating an IPv6 packet with its
 IPv6 and Segment Routing Headers.  This include either:

    A host originating an IPv6 packet.

    An SR domain ingress router encapsulating a received IPv6 packet
    into an outer IPv6 header followed by an SRH.

I suppose we need expert review of the routing header itself, but
for me there is simply no issue about compatibility with 2460(bis).

(draft-voyer-6man-extension-header-insertion is a quite different
conversation and we should not confuse the two. That would be FUD.)

Regards
   Brian

On 01/04/2017 06:56, Robert Raszuk wrote:
Even if we treat encapsulation in new IPv6 header as only an option ?

Thx
R.



On Mar 31, 2017 12:46, "Suresh Krishnan" 
<suresh(_dot_)krishnan(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com>
wrote:

Hi Robert,

On Mar 31, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Robert Raszuk <robert(_at_)raszuk(_dot_)net> 
wrote:

Hi Suresh,

As you requested one of many quotes from the draft which your
clarification to 2460bis directly contradicts with:

This include either:

      A host originating an IPv6 packet.

      *An SR domain ingress router encapsulating a received IPv6 packet
      into an outer IPv6 header followed by an SRH.*


Excellent. Thanks for pointing out the exact text. I can confirm that this
text  *is compliant* with the RFC2460bis text.

Thanks
Suresh




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