Related issue: UDP over IPv6 2292bis Senders can devide data to be sent at the minimum MTU, 1280. the IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU socket option. Senders can avoid path MTU discovery. Example algorithm for DNS servers If a UDP/IPv6 sender knows the size of path MTU, divide a packet into fragments of the size Else If the sender is capable of 2292bis, divide the packet into fragments of 1280 bytes Else the sender sends the packet (???) Proposal Document "UDP over IPv6" in "Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6", RFC 1981?