Fwd: New IETF I-D: IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World

Fri Aug 8 04:12:30 UTC 2014

Folks,

FYI:
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00.txt>.
Comments welcome.

Thanks!
Fernando

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: New I-D: IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:04:37 -0400
From: Fernando Gont <fgont at si6networks.com>
To: IPv6 Operations <v6ops at ietf.org>

Folks,

We have published a new I-D on the topic of IPv6 Extension Headers
(EHs). The I-D is available at:
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00.txt>.

Abstract:
   IPv6 Extension Headers allow for the extension of the IPv6 protocol,
   and provide support for some core functionality such as IPv6
   fragmentation.  However, IPv6 Extension Headers are deemed to present
   a challenge to IPv6 implementations and networks, and are known to be
   intentionally filtered in some existing IPv6 deployments.  This
   summarizes the issues associated with IPv6 extension headers, and
   presents real-world data regarding the extent to which packets with
   IPv6 extension headers are filtered in the public Internet, and where
   in the network such filtering occurs.  Additionally, it provides some
   guidance to operators in troubleshooting IPv6 blackholes resulting
   from the use of IPv6 extension headers.  Finally, this document
   provides some advice to protocol designers, and discusses areas where
   further work might be needed.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Fernando

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: New Version Notification for
draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00.txt
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:57:17 -0700
From: internet-drafts at ietf.org
To: J. Linkova <furry at google.com>, Shucheng LIU (Will)
<liushucheng at huawei.com>, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Tim Chown
<tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Fernando Gont <fgont at si6networks.com>, Fernando
Gont <fgont at si6networks.com>, Will (Shucheng) Liu
<liushucheng at huawei.com>, J. Linkova <furry at google.com>

A new version of I-D, draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Fernando Gont and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:		draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world
Revision:	00
Title:		IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World
Document date:	2014-08-07
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		15
URL:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00.txt
Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world/
Htmlized:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00

Abstract:
   IPv6 Extension Headers allow for the extension of the IPv6 protocol,
   and provide support for some core functionality such as IPv6
   fragmentation.  However, IPv6 Extension Headers are deemed to present
   a challenge to IPv6 implementations and networks, and are known to be
   intentionally filtered in some existing IPv6 deployments.  This
   summarizes the issues associated with IPv6 extension headers, and
   presents real-world data regarding the extent to which packets with
   IPv6 extension headers are filtered in the public Internet, and where
   in the network such filtering occurs.  Additionally, it provides some
   guidance to operators in troubleshooting IPv6 blackholes resulting
   from the use of IPv6 extension headers.  Finally, this document
   provides some advice to protocol designers, and discusses areas where
   further work might be needed.

Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.

The IETF Secretariat

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Fernando Gont
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