Bob,

> On Sep 7, 2022, at 1:53 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm-i...@htt-consult.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/7/22 16:04, Bob Hinden wrote:
>> Bob,
>> 
>> To clarify my question, it only relates to if SCHC should be added to the 
>> IPv6 Extension Header Types registry.   I continue to think that adding it 
>> to the IP Protocol Number registry is fine.
> 
> I understood this.  The question is vers -00 or -01 going foreward.

Given it’s a request for adoption call, -01 is fine.   All can be changed later 
once it is a w.g. document :-)

Bob


> 
> thanks for your support.
> 
> Bob M.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 7, 2022, at 12:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm-i...@htt-consult.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9/7/22 15:15, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>>>> On 2022-09-07, at 18:36, Bob Hinden <bob.hin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Is this an IPv6 extension header?    Does SCHC include a next header 
>>>>> field so it can point to a header that follows?
>>>> If you haven’t seen RFC 5856 to 5858: This is a miniseries of documents 
>>>> where we have done the analog thing for the ROHC Robust Header Compression 
>>>> scheme that is now being proposed for the SCHC Static Context Header 
>>>> Compression scheme.
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>>> The actual allocation of an Internet Protocol Number to ROHC is in Section 
>>>> 6 of RFC 5858:  https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5858.html#section-6
>>>> 
>>>>    IANA has allocated the value 142 to "ROHC" within the "Protocol
>>>>    Numbers" registry [PROTOCOL].  This value will be used to indicate
>>>>    that the next-level protocol header is a ROHC header.
>>>> 
>>>> Some forms of ROHC headers contain a next header field, but mostly that 
>>>> field is compressed away as it is redundant between packets in a flow.
>>>> 
>>>> Bob’s document is doing the equivalent to RFC 5858, now for SCHC.
>>>> Once there is a WG adoption call, I’ll express that I am very much in 
>>>> favor of this work going forward.
>>>> (As I have said before, I’d also like to see the equivalent IKE/IPsec 
>>>> support that RFC 5856 and RFC 5857 provide for SCHC as well.  But this can 
>>>> be done on different timescales.)
>>> Diet-ESP is the starting point.  It has to be fully SCHCed.
>>> 
>>> DTLS is already compressed enough, but as I point out, given DTLS and SCHC, 
>>> you rarely need the UDP header content.
>>> 
>>> Bob
>>> 
> 

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