Re: v6 Avian Carriers?

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Apr 1, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> Which? African or European Swallows?
>
> (Watches Chad fly over the cliff edge) ;-)


So the RFC needed more text in it's Security Considerations section, too...
> Owen
>
> On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Chad Dailey wrote:
>
> > Swallows have MTU issues.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> >
> > > On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:41 11AM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on.   Now I know.  So if a v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram 
> > > > does that count as packet loss or tunneling?
> > > >
> > > > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/
> > >
> > > I was disappointed in this RFC -- Section 3.1 didn't include the proper discussion of the difference between 
> > > African and European avian carriers, and we know what happens if that question is asked at the wrong time.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >               --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> > That applies to swallows. I'm not sure pidgeons pose the same issue. I think in general, swallows
> > provide poor platforms for avian transport of IP datagrams.
> >
> >
> > Owen