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> On 28 Sep 2024, at 04:05, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Joe,
> On 28-Sep-24 03:13, to...@strayalpha.com wrote:
>>>> On Sep 27, 2024, at 7:58 AM, Templin (US), Fred L 
>>>> <Fred.L.Templin=40boeing....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Indeed. But if sendmsg() and recvmsg() can and do generate RFC2675 
>>>> packets, it means that any discussion of obsoleting RFC2675 should be
>>>> off the table.
>>> 
>>> No one that I know of has suggested obsoleting RFC2675 - my documents do 
>>> not say "obsoletes" (nor even "updates”).
>> That approach to UDP jumbo grams is incompatible with UDP options.
>> And yes, there was a proposal to move that RFC to historic:
>> Jones, T., G. Fairhurst, "Change Status of RFC 2675 to Historic," 
>> draft-jones-6man-historic-rfc2675, May 2019.
>> We COULD have a new option with a longer length, but that’s not in our 
>> baseline draft.
> 
> Wouldn't that be tricky, because the options follow the whole payload as I 
> understand it? So a JumboUDPgram has to be received in full, however big it 
> is, before the option saying that it's a jumbo can be received and 
> interpreted.
> 
> Where the udp-options draft says:
> 
>>> The technique has been proposed for deprecation [Jo19].
> 
> I think you'd better change it to something like:
> 
> The technique is known to be in active use in special situations, so cannot 
> reasonably be deprecated. However, users of this technique cannot 
> simultaneously use UDP options.
> 
>    Brian
> 
I do not think the I-D needs to say anything about the deployment status of 
jumbograms, that another topic.

I suggest if people wish, we just say that  users of this technique can or 
cannot simultaneously use UDP options.

Gorry 
> 
> 

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