Subject: Re: [Int-area] Comment on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-02

From: Ron Bonica <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:14:37 +0000

Hi Erik,

Could you refine the recommendation a little bit? If an ISP were to ask, "What MTU is fit for my purpose?", how would we answer?

                      Ron

> Ron,
> 
> Related to this section, at the mic I was suggesting perhaps including some
> simple text recommending that network operators SHOULD take efforts to
> make sure the MTU(s) on their network(s) are "fit for purpose", i.e. sized to
> avoid fragmentation to the extent possible.
> 
> I'm not sure yet how to better express that notion.  It seems obvious and
> anodyne, but it can be useful to have these things captured for reference by
> non-IETF documents.
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