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Sure?

At this point 1500 is the standard, we can’t ever hope to increase it without a way to negotiate the acceptable value across the entire transmission path - that’s what IPv6 gives us.



I'm not sure that negotiating the acceptable value across the entire transmission path is a reasonable thing to do. I'm not sure that IPv6 _should_ be aware of a minimum/maximum MTU of underlying transmission path particularly since that path can often change transparently and each segment is subject to different requirements.




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