On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 9:28 AM Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> wrote: > > All, > > As far as I recall during IPv6 discussions a notion of end-to-end principle > of Internet design was treated as paramount. Number of decisions made in > shaping IPv6 encoding were derived from this. > > One of those is checksum which has been removed from the IP header and > shifted to higher layers (TCP or UDP or UDP-light etc ...). > > That means that no transit node (ie the node which is not the ultimate > destination of the transport and above layers) have the right to validate any > IPv6 checksum. If it is being done that is a spec violation and they should > do it at their own risk.
Robert, Please cite the RFC that expressly forbids an intermediate node from validating the transport layer checksum for operational or debugging purposes Tom > > So with that "the time has come to say" that this discussion which aims to > simply block the subject draft which many customers do use today for various > real network applications should just end. > > Regards, > Robert > _______________________________________________ spring mailing list -- spring@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to spring-le...@ietf.org
