The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to consider the following document: - 'IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets' <draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-06.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the i...@ietf.org mailing lists by 2012-12-25. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to i...@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document provides an update of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) specification (RFC2460) to improve the performance in the use case when a tunnel protocol uses UDP with IPv6 to tunnel packets. The performance improvement is obtained by relaxing the IPv6 UDP checksum requirement for suitable tunneling protocol where header information is protected on the "inner" packet being carried. This relaxation removes the overhead associated with the computation of UDP checksums on IPv6 packets used to carry tunnel protocols. The specification describes how the IPv6 UDP checksum requirement can be relaxed for the situation where the encapsulated packet itself contains a checksum. The limitations and risks of this approach are described, and restrictions specified on the use of the method. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
