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Re: NIST and SP800-119

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Feb 14 21:42:09 2011

In-Reply-To: <D506DB96-9CE5-4437-A701-2AC04CADE42A@oitc.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:41:17 -0500
To: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:24 PM, TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com> wrote:
> Just wondering what this community thinks of NIST in
> general and their SP800-119 (
> http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-119/sp800-119.pdf )
> writeup about IPv6 in particular.


Well, according to this document IPv4 path MTU discovery is,
"optional, not widely used."

-Bill


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