> This works, too. But now we have three participants in the discussion and 
> three opinions!
> 
> Let's just pick one! Does anybody have a coin?

who calls "edge"? ;-)

cheers,
Ole

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Ole Troan
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:37 AM
>> To: C.M.Heard
>> Cc: IPv6
>> Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-
>> chain-04>
>> 
>>> The reason I didn't suggest pointing at the Fragment Header is
>> because
>>> it would carry the same information that it would in a correctly
>>> fragmented packet, namely M=1 and Fragment Offset=0 (the signature of
>>> an initial fragment).  The Payload Length field is what indicates
>> that
>>> the fragment is too short to contain all the extension headers and
>> the
>>> upper layer header; its value would have to be different in a
>>> legitimate packet.  Hence my suggestion to point there.
>> 
>> or set the pointer field to 0? given that there really isn't an octet
>> offset where an error has been detected.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Ole
> 

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