Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Support for the IOAM Pre-allocated Trace with IPv6

On 5/31/21 6:04 AM, Justin Iurman wrote:

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Actually, February 2021 is the last update. The main draft
(draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data) has already come a long way (version 12) and has
already been Submitted to IESG for Publication. I don't think it would hurt

when the expected decision on publication?

Hard to tell precisely, a couple weeks probably. There are still some comment/discuss to clear and our next IETF working group meeting is in July. However, it shouldn't be a concern (see below).\

Ok.

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that much to have it in the kernel as we're talking about a stable
draft (the other one is just a wrapper to define the encapsulation of
IOAM with IPv6) and something useful. And, if you think about Segment
Routing for IPv6, it was merged in the kernel when it was still a draft.

The harm is if there are any changes to the uapi.

Definitely agree. But, I can assure you there won't be any uapi change at this stage. None of the comment/discuss I mentioned above are about this at all. Headers definition and IANA codes are defined for a long time now and won't change anymore.

Please add tests to tools/testing/selftests/net to cover the
functionality added.