Re: [IPv6] [v6ops] Why folks are blocking IPv 6 extension headers? (Episode 1000 and counting) (Linux DoS)

On 26/5/23 18:01, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 8:12 AM Fernando Gont <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>>
>> That said, I'm not that fine if invited to a party where, if anything, I
>> will only pay the bills. So, I block everything that I don't use. e.g.,
>> I have no use for EHs in any of my servers, except the pentesting boxes
>> that I use to send weird packets to others.
> 
> Fernando,
> 
> If you're making that decision as the operator of a public network
> then you are not making that decision for yourself, but you're making

RFC9098.

> a "big brother" decision for others and preventing permissionless
> innovation as Brian stated nicely. I don't believe it could be claimed
> that this is for "the good of the Internet".

Companies are run to make money, not for the good of the Internet.

And if your clients get downtime as a result of you keeping things wide 
open "for the good Internet", you'll likely have an interesting 
(unpleasant) conversation with your upstream management.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: [email protected]
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