[Fwd: RFC 7045 on Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension Headers]

[Brian E Carpenter]

Hi,

I don't normally toot about my own RFCs but I think this one
needs a little publicity. It's operationally important (IMHO) that
people start asking their firewall vendors to get the handling of
extension headers right. It won't happen overnight of course.

Key sentence:
   If a forwarding node discards a packet containing a standard IPv6
   extension header, it MUST be the result of a configurable policy and
   not just the result of a failure to recognise such a header.

If you prefer html-ized format: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7045

   Brian

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RFC 7045 on Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension Headers
Date: Fri,  6 Dec 2013 10:54:05 -0800 (PST)
From: rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org
To: ietf-announce at ietf.org, rfc-dist at rfc-editor.org
CC: drafts-update-ref at iana.org, ipv6 at ietf.org, rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org

A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.


        RFC 7045

        Title:      Transmission and Processing of IPv6
                    Extension Headers
        Author:     B. Carpenter, S. Jiang
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       December 2013
        Mailbox:    brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com,
                    jiangsheng at huawei.com
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 21852
        Updates:    RFC 2460, RFC 2780

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit-05.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7045.txt

Various IPv6 extension headers have been standardised since the IPv6
standard was first published.  This document updates RFC 2460 to
clarify how intermediate nodes should deal with such extension
headers and with any that are defined in the future.  It also
specifies how extension headers should be registered by IANA, with a
corresponding minor update to RFC 2780.

This document is a product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the Internet
Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and
status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists.
To subscribe or unsubscribe, see
  http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
  http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist

For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php
For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html

Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the
author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org.  Unless
specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for
unlimited distribution.


The RFC Editor Team
Association Management Solutions, LLC


--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPv6 working group mailing list
ipv6 at ietf.org
Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6
--------------------------------------------------------------------