[SR-Users] Removing Via and Record-Route headers

[Alex Balashov]

On 03/19/2016 11:03 PM, Marrold wrote:

> That's essentially what I'm hoping for, although I appreciate from an
>  RFC purist perspective it's probably a bit of a nasty hack.

It's not a question of pedantic RFC purism so much as:

(a) Whether it creates at least as many complications as it solves; 
solutions like this one create so many complications, corner cases and 
statekeeping requirements that they represent - to borrow a term from 
philosophy of science - a "degenerative heuristic". This means crawling 
down a rabbit hole to solve the wrong problem the wrong way and just 
getting tangled.

But perhaps a more applicable term would be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

(b) Whether it's truly the most effective solution to the problem. It 
seems to me you're solving the wrong problem; solutions for UDP 
fragmentation (use TCP, remove other, less essential headers) and 
topology hiding (B2BUA) are well-understood and canonical.

(c) Technically possible.

-- Alex

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