[ipv6-wg] [v6ops] Extension Headers / Impact on Security Devices

On 6/16/2015 12:02 PM, Jen Linkova wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Enno Rey <erey at ernw.de> wrote:
>> the problem here is the definition of "normal IP packet" as of RFC2460.
> 
> The problem here is what one might mean by "normal" (from Oxford dictionary):
> 1)  conforming to a standard;
> 2) usual, typical, or expected;

That's the trouble with extensions. You can't expect them until they're
developed AND deployed, so initially they're never "expected" in terms
of actual traffic.

Except that we SHOULD expect *everything* that's in a spec.

Joe