Session

Workshop on Extension Headers

Chairs

Tom Herbert

Label

Moonshot

Session Type

Workshop

Contents

Description

This work shop is about IPv6 (and potentially IPv4) Extension Headers. Extension Headers, or EH, are a core part of IPv6 to make it an extensible protocol. This is an active area of interest as vairous forms of Extension Headers, especially Hop-by-Hop and Destination Options, are now being developed and deployed.

Some of the topics might include:

  • Created and processing EH in eBPF
  • Work to mitigate packet drop in the Internet due to the presence of EH
  • Changes to Linux kernel to make them usable
  • Use cases of Hop-by-Hop Options for host to network signaling (like QoS) or network to host signaling like (like switch congestion signaling)