The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to consider the following document: - 'Packet loss resiliency for Router Solicitations' <draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs-04.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 [email protected] mailing lists by 2015-02-16. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract When an interface on a host is initialized, the host transmits Router Solicitations in order to minimize the amount of time it needs to wait until the next unsolicited multicast Router Advertisement is received. In certain scenarios, these router solicitations transmitted by the host might be lost. This document specifies a mechanism for hosts to cope with the loss of the initial Router Solicitations. Furthermore, on some links, unsolicited multicast Router Advertisements are never sent and the mechanism in this document is intended to work even in such scenarios. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
