RFC 8200, "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", July 2017

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 9673

Errata ID: 5173
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Fernando Gont
Date Reported: 2017-10-29
Rejected by: Suresh Krishnan
Date Rejected: 2020-02-03

Section 4.5 says:

   reassembled original packet:

   +---------------+-----------------+---------+--------+-//--+--------+
   | Per-Fragment  |Ext & Upper-Layer|  first  | second |     | last   |
   |    Headers    |     Headers     |frag data|fragment|.....|fragment|
   +---------------+-----------------+---------+--------+-//--+--------+

It should say:

   reassembled original packet:

   +---------------+-----------------+---------+--------+-//--+--------+
   | Per-Fragment  |Ext & Upper-Layer|  first  | second |     | last   |
   |    Headers    |     Headers     | fragment|fragment|.....|fragment|
   +---------------+-----------------+---------+--------+-//--+--------+

Notes:

The figure in the "original text" is inconsistent with an earlier figure of the "original packet" (in page 18), where the "Ext & Upper-Layer Headers" part is followed by "first fragment" (rather than "first fragment data").

As an alternative to the "corrected text" above, one could modify such earlier figure (s/first fragment/first fragment data/), but this would beg a definition of "how is a fragment composed?" i.e., what's "fragment data" and what's not).
--VERIFIER NOTES--
Verifier's Note by Suresh Krishnan (Responsible AD for 6man): The 6man working group has chosen to address the subject of this Erratum and other related Errata using a consolidated fix detailed in the Erratum report #5945. I would like to thank the submitter Fernando Gont for bringing this up.

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