Re: Segmentation within HIP

Please see:

draft-hares-i2nsf-ssls-00-02.txt

Sue Hares and I are working on a whole session layer architecture where 
chunking and frag/reassem are parts of the session layer.  The work we 
are doing there, definitely would easily apply to HIP. Actually you need 
more that a bit.  Really 7 (this is what I did in IEEE 802.15.9), but 6 
work.

I would be interested in sitting down with you at IETF on this.

This week I am busy with my youngest son's wedding (tomorrow night).

On 03/25/2016 06:49 PM, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> Recently I've been working on middlebox s/w:  Firewalls and NAT.
>
> One thing this has brought home to me is just how unreliable
> fragmentation is on the current Internet.  NAT will often
> simply break it (such that they can not be reassembled) or
> just discard them,  and firewalls are often set up to block them.
>
> As such,  almost every protocol now would seem to need protocol
> level segmentation/fragmentation,  rather than depend up IP
> level fragmentation.
>
> It struck me that it should be quite simple to extend HIP to
> support such.
>
> 1) Add a Controls bit which advertises that the sender supports
>     segmentation.
> 2) Define a new parameter,  numbered 1 such that it is first in
>     the parameters,  and is critical.
>     Within the parameter have a seqno/identifier, offset and
>     more segments / final segment bit, possibly also a total
>     size field.  Define some simple reassembly rules,  similar
>     to those for IP fragments, such that one could reassemble
>     a HIP packet larger than 2008 bytes if desired (how big?).
> 3) Possibly also define a none critical parameter within the
>     non signed,  non MACed range which advertises the max size
>     packet the sender is willing to reassemble.  In fact I guess
>     this might remove the need to use a Controls bit,  since it
>     would imply the sender can reassemble.
>
> Then have a rule that once one party has seen the other party
> advertise the segmentation capability within the current BEX
> session, it is free to make use of segmentation towards that peer.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> DF
>
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