IPv6 Operations É. Vyncke
Internet-Draft Cisco
Intended status: Informational R. Léas
Expires: 21 September 2022 J. Iurman
Université de Liège
20 March 2022
Just Another Measurement of Extension header Survivability (JAMES)
draft-vyncke-v6ops-james-01
Abstract
In 2016, RFC7872 has measured the drop of packets with IPv6 extension
headers. This document presents a slightly different methodology
with more recent results. It is still work in progress.
About This Document
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Vantage Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Tested Autonomous Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2.1. Drop attribution to AS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. Tested Extension Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Routing Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2. Hop-by-Hop Options Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3. Destination Options Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4. Fragmentation Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.5. No extension headers drop at all . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.6. Special Next Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Summary of the collaborating parties measurements . . . . . . 13
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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1. Introduction
In 2016, [RFC7872] has measured the drop of packets with IPv6
extension headers on their transit over the global Internet. This
document presents a slightly different methodology with more recent
results. Since then, [I-D.draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering] has
provided some recommendations for filtering transit traffic, so there
may be some changes in providers policies.
It is still work in progress, but the authors wanted to present some
results at IETF-113 (March 2022). The code is open source and is
available at [GITHUB].
2. Methodology
In a first phase, the measurement is done between collaborating IPv6
nodes, a.k.a. vantage points, spread over the Internet and multiple
Autonomous Systems (ASs). As seen in Section 3.2, the
source/destination/transit ASs include some "tier-1" providers per
[TIER1], so, they are probably representative of the global Internet
core.
Relying on collaborating nodes has some benefits:
* propagation can be measured even in the absence of any ICMP
message or reply generated by the destination;
* traffic timing can be measured accurately to answer whether
extension headers are slower than plain IP6 packets;
* traffic can be captured into .pcap [I-D.draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap]
file at the source and at the destination for later analysis.
Future phases will send probes to non-collaborating nodes with a much
reduced probing speed. The destination will include [ALEXA] top-n
websites, popular CDN, as well as random prefix from the IPv6 global
routing table. A revision of this IETF draft will describe those
experiments.
3. Measurements
3.1. Vantage Points
Several servers were used worldwide (albeit missing Africa and China
as the authors were unable to find IPv6 servers in these regions).
Table 1 lists all the vantage points together with their AS number
and country.
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+========+===================+==============+===================+
| ASN | AS Name | Country code | Location |
+========+===================+==============+===================+
| 7195 | Edge Uno | AG | Buenos Aires |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 12414 | NL-SOLCON SOLCON | NL | Amsterdam |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 14061 | Digital Ocean | CA | Toronto, ON |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 14061 | Digital Ocean | USA | New York City, NY |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 14601 | Digital Ocean | DE | Francfort |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 14601 | Digital Ocean | IN | Bangalore |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 14601 | Digital Ocean | SG | Singapore |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 16276 | OVH | AU | Sydney |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 16276 | OVH | PL | Warsaw |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 44684 | Mythic Beasts | UK | Cambridge |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 47853 | Hostinger | US | Ashville, NC |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 60011 | MYTHIC-BEASTS-USA | US | Fremont, CA |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| 198644 | GO6 | SI | Ljubljana |
+--------+-------------------+--------------+-------------------+
Table 1: All vantage AS
3.2. Tested Autonomous Systems
During first phase (traffic among fully-meshed collaborative nodes),
Table 2 show the ASs for which our probes have collected data.
+===========+======================================+==========+
| AS Number | AS Description | Comment |
+===========+======================================+==========+
| 174 | COGENT-174, US | Tier-1 |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 1299 | TWELVE99 Twelve99, Telia Carrier, SE | Tier-1 |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 2914 | NTT-COMMUNICATIONS-2914, US | Tier-1 |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 3320 | DTAG Internet service provider | Tier-1 |
| | operations, DE | |
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+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 3356 | LEVEL3, US | Tier-1 |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 4637 | ASN-TELSTRA-GLOBAL Telstra Global, | Regional |
| | HK | Tier |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 4755 | TATACOMM-AS TATA Communications | |
| | formerly VSNL is Leading ISP, IN | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 5603 | SIOL-NET Telekom Slovenije d.d., SI | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 6453 | Tata Communication | Tier-1 |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 6762 | SEABONE-NET TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE | Tier-1 |
| | S.p.A., IT | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 6939 | HURRICANE, US | Regional |
| | | Tier |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 7195 | EDGEUNO SAS, CO | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 8447 | A1TELEKOM-AT A1 Telekom Austria AG, | |
| | AT | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 9498 | BBIL-AP BHARTI Airtel Ltd., IN | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 12414 | NL-SOLCON SOLCON, NL | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 14061 | DIGITALOCEAN-ASN, US | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 16276 | OVH, FR | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 21283 | A1SI-AS A1 Slovenija, SI | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 34779 | T-2-AS AS set propagated by T-2 | |
| | d.o.o., SI | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 44684 | MYTHIC Mythic Beasts Ltd, GB | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 60011 | MYTHIC-BEASTS-USA, GB | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
| 198644 | GO6, SI | |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------+
Table 2: All AS (source/destination/transit)
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The table attributes some tier qualification to some ASs based on the
Wikipedia page [TIER1], but there is no common way to decide who is a
tier-1. Based on some CAIDA research, all the above (except GO6,
which is a stub network) are transit providers.
While this document lists some operators, the intent is not to build
a wall of fame or a wall of shame but more to get an idea about which
kind of providers drop packets with extension headers and how
widespread the drop policy is enforced and where, i.e., in the access
provider or in the core of the Internet.
3.2.1. Drop attribution to AS
Comparing the traceroutes with and without extension headers allows
the attribution of a packet drop to one AS. But, this is not an easy
task as inter-AS links often use IPv6 address of only one AS (if not
using link-local per [RFC7704]). This document uses the following
algorithm to attribute the drop to one AS for packet sourced in one
AS and then having a path traversing AS#foo just before AS#bar:
* if the packet drop happens at the first router (i.e., hop limit ==
1 does not trigger an ICMP hop-limit exceeded), then the drop is
assumed to this AS as it is probably an ingress filter on the
first router (i.e., the hosting provider in most of the cases -
except if collocated with an IXP).
* if the packet drop happens in AS#foo after one or more hop(s) in
AS#bar, then the drop is assumed to be in AS#foo ingress filter on
a router with an interface address in AS#foo
* if the packet drop happens in AS#bar after one or more hop(s) in
AS#bar before going to AS#foo, then the drop is assumed to be in
AS#foo ingress filter on a router with an interface address in
AS#bar
In several cases, the above algorithm was not possible (e.g., some
intermediate routers do not generate an ICMP unreachable hop limit
exceeded even in the absence of any extension headers), then the drop
is not attributed. Please also note that the goal of this document
is not to 'point fingers to operators' but more to evaluate the
potential impact. I.e., a tier-1 provider dropping packets with
extension headers has a much bigger impact on the Internet traffic
than an access provider.
Future revision of this document will use the work of [MLAT_PEERING].
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3.3. Tested Extension Headers
In the first phase among collaborating vantage points, packets always
contained either a UDP payload or a TCP payload, the latter is sent
with only the SYN flag set and with data as permitted by section 3.4
of [RFC793] (2nd paragraph). A usual traceroute is done with only
the UDP/TCP payload without any extension header with varying hop-
limit in order to learn the traversed routers and ASs. Then, several
UDP/TCP probes are sent with a set of extension headers:
* hop-by-hop and destination options header containing:
- one PadN option for an extension header length of 8 octets,
- one unknown option with the "discard" bits for an extension
header length of 8 octets,
- multiple PadN options for an extension header length of 256
octets,
- one unknown option (two sets with "discard" and "skip" bits)
for the destination options header length of 16, 32, 64, and
128 octets,
- one unknown option (two sets with "discard" and "skip" bits)
for an extension header length of 256 and 512 octets.
* routing header with routing types from 0 to 6 inclusive;
* atomic fragment header (i.e., M-flag = 0 and offset = 0) of
varying frame length 512, 1280, and 1500 octets;
* non-atomic first fragment header (i.e., M-flag = 1 and offset = 0)
of varying frame length 512, 1280, and 1500 octets;
* authentication header with dummy SPI followed by UDP/TCP header
and a 38 octets payload.
In the above, length is the length of the extension header itself
except for the fragmentation header where the length is the IP packet
length (i.e., including the IPv6, and TCP/UDP headers + payload).
For hop-by-hop and destination options headers, when required
multiple PadN options were used in order to bypass some Linux kernels
that consider a PadN larger than 8 bytes is an attack, see section
5.3 of [BCP220], even if multiple PadN options violates section
2.1.9.5 of [RFC4942].
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In addition to the above extension headers, other probes were sent
with next header field of IPv6 header set to:
* 59, which is "no next header", especially whether extra octets
after the no next header as section 4.7 [RFC8200] requires that
"those octets must be ignored and passed on unchanged if the
packet is forwarded";
* 143, which is Ethernet payload (see section 10.1 of [RFC8986]).
4. Results
This section presents the current results out of phase 1
(collaborating vantage points) testing. About 4860 experiments were
run, one experiment being defined by sending packets between 2
vantage points with hop-limit varying from 1 to the number of hops
between the two vantage points and for all the extension headers
described in Section 3.3.
4.1. Routing Header
Table 3 lists all routing header types and the percentage of
experiments that were successful, i.e., packets with routing header
reaching their destination:
+=====================+=======================================+
| Routing Header Type | %-age of packets reaching destination |
+=====================+=======================================+
| 0 | 80.9% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
| 1 | 99.5% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
| 2 | 99.5% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
| 3 | 99.5% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
| 4 | 69.0% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
| 5 | 99.5% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
| 6 | 99.3% |
+---------------------+---------------------------------------+
Table 3: Per Routing Header Types Transmission
Table 4 lists the few ASs that drop packets with the routing header
type 0 (the original source routing header, which is now deprecated).
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+===========+================+
| AS Number | AS description |
+===========+================+
| 6939 | HURRICANE, US |
+-----------+----------------+
Table 4: AS Dropping
Routing Header Type 0
It is possibly due to a strict implementation of [RFC5095] but it is
expected that no packet with routing header type 0 would be
transmitted anymore. So, this is not surprising.
Table 5 lists the few ASs that drop packets with the routing header
type 4 (Segment Routing Header [RFC8754]).
+===========+================+
| AS Number | AS description |
+===========+================+
| 16276 | OVH, FR |
+-----------+----------------+
Table 5: AS Dropping
Routing Header Type 0
This drop of SRH was to be expected as SRv6 is specified to run only
in a limited domain.
Other routing header types (1 == deprecated NIMROD [RFC1753], 2 ==
mobile IPv6 [RFC6275], 3 == RPL [RFC6554], and even 5 == CRH-16 and 6
== CRH-32[I-D.draft-bonica-6man-comp-rtg-hdr]) can be transmitted
over the global Internet without being dropped (assuming that the
0.5% of dropped packets are within the measurement error).
4.2. Hop-by-Hop Options Header
Many ASs drop packets containing either hop-by-hop options headers
per Table 6 below:
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+===============+========+=======================================+
| Option Type | Length | %-age of packets reaching destination |
+===============+========+=======================================+
| Skip | 8 | 5.8% |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
| Discard | 8 | 0.0% |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
| Skip one | 256 | 1.9% |
| large PadN | | |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
| Skip multiple | 256 | 0.0% |
| PadN | | |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
| Discard | 256 | 0.0% |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
| Skip | 512 | 1.9% |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
| Discard | 512 | 0.0% |
+---------------+--------+---------------------------------------+
Table 6: Hop-by-hop Transmission
It appears that hop-by-hop options headers cannot reliably traverse
the global Internet; only small headers with 'skipable' options have
some chances. If the unknown hop-by-hop option has the 'discard'
bits, it is dropped per specification.
4.3. Destination Options Header
Many ASs drop packets containing destination options headers per
Table 7:
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+========+===============+=======================================+
| Length | Multiple PadN | %-age of packets reaching destination |
+========+===============+=======================================+
| 8 | No | 99.3% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 16 | No | 99.3% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 32 | No | 93.3% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 64 | No | 41.6% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 128 | No | 4.5% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 256 | No | 2.6% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 256 | Yes | 2.6% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| 512 | No | 2.6% |
+--------+---------------+---------------------------------------+
Table 7: Hop-by-hop Transmission
The measurement did not find any impact of the discard/skip bits in
the destination headers options, probably because the routers do not
look inside the extension headers into the options. The use of a
single large PadN or multiple 8-octet PadN options does not influence
the result.
The size of the destination options header has a major impact on the
drop probability. It appears that extension header larger than 16
octets already causes major drops. It may be because the 40 octets
of the IPv6 header + the 16 octets of the extension header (total 56
octets) is still below some router hardware lookup mechanisms while
the next measured size (extension header size of 64 octets for a
total of 104 octets) is beyond the hardware limit and some AS has a
policy to drop packets where the TCP/UDP ports are unknown...
4.4. Fragmentation Header
The propagation of two kinds of fragmentation headers was analysed:
atomic fragment (offset == 0 and M-flag == 0) and plain first
fragment (offset == 0 and M-flag == 1). The Table 8 displays the
propagation differences.
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+============+=======================================+
| M-flag | %-age of packets reaching destination |
+============+=======================================+
| 0 (atomic) | 70.2% |
+------------+---------------------------------------+
| 1 | 99.0% |
+------------+---------------------------------------+
Table 8: IPv6 Fragments Transmission
The size of the overall IP packets (512, 1280, and 1500 octets) does
not have any impact on the propagation.
4.5. No extension headers drop at all
Table 9 lists some ASs that do not drop transit traffic (except for
routing header type 0) and follow the recommendations of
[I-D.draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering]. This list includes tier-1
transit providers (using the "regional" tag per [TIER1]):
+===========+=======================================+===============+
| AS Number | AS Description | Comment |
+===========+=======================================+===============+
| 4637 | ASN-TELSTRA-GLOBAL Telstra Global, HK | Regional |
| | | Tier |
+-----------+---------------------------------------+---------------+
| 4755 | TATACOMM-AS TATA Communications | |
| | formerly VSNL is Leading ISP, IN | |
+-----------+---------------------------------------+---------------+
| 21283 | A1SI-AS A1 Slovenija, SI | |
+-----------+---------------------------------------+---------------+
| 60011 | MYTHIC-BEASTS-USA, GB | |
+-----------+---------------------------------------+---------------+
Table 9: ASs Not Dropping Packets with Extension Headers
Some ASs also drop only large (more than 8 octets) destination
options headers, see Table 10:
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+===========+====================+===================+
| AS Number | AS Description | Largest Forwarded |
| | | Dest.Opt. Size |
+===========+====================+===================+
| 6453 | Tata | 8 |
| | Communication | |
+-----------+--------------------+-------------------+
| 1299 | TWELVE99 Twelve99, | 8 |
| | Telia Carrier, SE | |
+-----------+--------------------+-------------------+
| 174 | COGENT-174, US | 8 |
+-----------+--------------------+-------------------+
Table 10: ASs Only Dropping Packets with Large
Destination Options Headers
4.6. Special Next Headers
Measurements also include two protocol numbers that are mainly new
use of IPv6. Table 11 indicates the percentage of packets reaching
the destination.
+===================+=======================================+
| Next Header | %-age of packets reaching destination |
+===================+=======================================+
| NoNextHeader (59) | 99.7% |
+-------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Ethernet (143) | 99.2% |
+-------------------+---------------------------------------+
Table 11: Transmission of Special IP Protocols
The above indicates that those IP protocols can be transmitted over
the global Internet without being dropped (assuming that the 0.3-0.8%
of dropped packets are within the measurement error).
5. Summary of the collaborating parties measurements
While the analysis has areas of improvement (geographical
distribution and impact on latency), it appears that:
* authentication and non-atomic fragmentation headers can traverse
the Internet;
* only routing headers types 0 and 4 experiment problems over the
Internet, other types have no problems;
* hop-by-hop options headers do not traverse the Internet;
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* destination options headers are not reliable enough when it
exceeds 16 octets.
Of course, the next phase of measurement with non-collaborating
parties will probably give another view.
6. Security Considerations
While active probing of the Internet may be considered as an attack,
this measurement was done among collaborating parties and using the
probe attribution technique described in
[I-D.draft-vyncke-opsec-probe-attribution] to allow external parties
to identify the source of the probes if required.
7. IANA Considerations
This document has no IANA actions.
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[RFC793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
RFC 793, DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793>.
[RFC8200] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", STD 86, RFC 8200,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8200, July 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200>.
8.2. Informative References
[ALEXA] "The top 500 sites on the web", n.d.,
<https://www.alexa.com/topsites>.
[BCP220] Chown, T., Loughney, J., and T. Winters, "IPv6 Node
Requirements", BCP 220, RFC 8504, January 2019.
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp220>
[GITHUB] Léas, R., "james", n.d.,
<https://gitlab.uliege.be/Benoit.Donnet/james>.
[I-D.draft-bonica-6man-comp-rtg-hdr]
Bonica, R., Kamite, Y., Alston, A., Henriques, D., and L.
Jalil, "The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)", Work in
Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-bonica-6man-comp-rtg-hdr-
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27, 15 November 2021,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bonica-6man-
comp-rtg-hdr-27>.
[I-D.draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap]
Harris, G. and M. C. Richardson, "PCAP Capture File
Format", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
opsawg-pcap-00, 25 October 2021,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-opsawg-
pcap-00>.
[I-D.draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering]
Gont, F. and W. (. Liu, "Recommendations on the Filtering
of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers at
Transit Routers", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
ietf-opsec-ipv6-eh-filtering-08, 3 June 2021,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-opsec-
ipv6-eh-filtering-08>.
[I-D.draft-vyncke-opsec-probe-attribution]
Vyncke, É., Donnet, B., and J. Iurman, "Attribution of
Internet Probes", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
vyncke-opsec-probe-attribution-01, 3 March 2022,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-vyncke-opsec-
probe-attribution-01>.
[MLAT_PEERING]
Giotsas, V., Zhou, S., Luckie, M., and K. Claffy,
"Inferring Multilateral Peering",
DOI 10.1145/2535372.2535390, December 2013,
<https://catalog.caida.org/details/
paper/2013_inferring_multilateral_peering/>.
[RFC1753] Chiappa, N., "IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod
Routing and Addressing Architecture", RFC 1753,
DOI 10.17487/RFC1753, December 1994,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1753>.
[RFC4942] Davies, E., Krishnan, S., and P. Savola, "IPv6 Transition/
Co-existence Security Considerations", RFC 4942,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4942, September 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4942>.
[RFC5095] Abley, J., Savola, P., and G. Neville-Neil, "Deprecation
of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6", RFC 5095,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5095, December 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5095>.
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[RFC6275] Perkins, C., Ed., Johnson, D., and J. Arkko, "Mobility
Support in IPv6", RFC 6275, DOI 10.17487/RFC6275, July
2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6275>.
[RFC6554] Hui, J., Vasseur, JP., Culler, D., and V. Manral, "An IPv6
Routing Header for Source Routes with the Routing Protocol
for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)", RFC 6554,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6554, March 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6554>.
[RFC7704] Crocker, D. and N. Clark, "An IETF with Much Diversity and
Professional Conduct", RFC 7704, DOI 10.17487/RFC7704,
November 2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7704>.
[RFC7872] Gont, F., Linkova, J., Chown, T., and W. Liu,
"Observations on the Dropping of Packets with IPv6
Extension Headers in the Real World", RFC 7872,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7872, June 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7872>.
[RFC8754] Filsfils, C., Ed., Dukes, D., Ed., Previdi, S., Leddy, J.,
Matsushima, S., and D. Voyer, "IPv6 Segment Routing Header
(SRH)", RFC 8754, DOI 10.17487/RFC8754, March 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8754>.
[RFC8986] Filsfils, C., Ed., Camarillo, P., Ed., Leddy, J., Voyer,
D., Matsushima, S., and Z. Li, "Segment Routing over IPv6
(SRv6) Network Programming", RFC 8986,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8986, February 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8986>.
[TIER1] "Tier 1 network", n.d.,
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network>.
Acknowledgments
The authors want to thank Sander Steffann and Jan Zorz for allowing
the free use of their labs. Other thanks to Fernando Gont who
indicated a nice IPv6 hosting provider in South America.
Special thanks as well to Professor Benoit Donnet for his support and
advices. This document would not have existed without his support.
Authors' Addresses
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Éric Vyncke
Cisco
De Kleetlaan 64
1831 Diegem
Belgium
Email: evyncke@cisco.com
Raphaël Léas
Université de Liège
Liège
Belgium
Email: raphael.leas@student.uliege.be
Justin Iurman
Université de Liège
Institut Montefiore B28
Allée de la Découverte 10
4000 Liège
Belgium
Email: justin.iurman@uliege.be
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