On 7. Sep 2022, at 21:46, Robert Moskowitz <rgm-i...@htt-consult.com> wrote: > > SCHC did it the other direction, first defining SCHC and then some of us > coming up with use cases for it being the actual IP protocol.
Well, ROHC had been in use for almost a decade (RFC 3095) before we finally found that we’d need an IP protocol number (RFC 5858, predominantly to better compress ESP, which obviously cannot be compressed from the outside), so I’d say we went through the same sequence. Grüße, Carsten _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area