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.

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
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