RFC 3542 or RFC 2292 - Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6

[Florian Weimer]

* cormac mullally:

> Firstly as some of you may know "type 0 routing header" has caused a
> bit of controversy (see http://www.natisbad.org/ especially this
> presentation http://www.secdev.org/conf/IPv6_RH_security-csw07.pdf)
> and it seems that there is some security concerns. Does anyone have
> any comment on this?

Any application which relies on IPv6 extension headers or IPv4 IP
options will not work reliably across the Internet.