Re: [lisp] IPv6 UDP checksum issue

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert at nokia.com>

    > This is in direct conflict with what RFC2460 says, and I'd personally
    > would find it problematic to approve publication of an Experimental
    > protocol that did this, unless there was an IETF consensus on a
    > standards-track document that would update RFC2460 accordingly. Such a
    > document would IMO need to show extremely strong arguments for why this
    > change is needed.

This is for an inter-router packet carriage use, not end-end. Why the dickens
should there be a mandatory checksum on the data in the packet for sending a
packet from one router to another?

	Noel