The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) Reflection' (draft-ietf-6man-icmpv6-reflection-19.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Erik Kline and Éric Vyncke. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-icmpv6-reflection/ Technical Summary This document describes the ICMPv6 Reflection utility. The ICMPv6 Reflection utility is a diagnostic tool, similar to Ping and the ICMPv6 Probe utility. It is similar to Ping and Probe in that it relies on a stateless message exchange between a probing node and a probed node. The probing node sends a request to the probed node and the probed node responds to the request. The ICMPv6 Reflection utility differs from Ping and Probe because, in the ICMPv6 Reflection utility, the probing node requests a snapshot of the message that it sent, as it was when arrived at the probed node. The probed node returns the requested snapshot. The ICMPv6 Reflection utility is useful because it can allow the user to see how the network modified the request as it traveled from the probing node to the probed node. Working Group Summary No major controversy. Related work is being done in ietf-intarea-rfc8335bis. Document Quality Per the shepherd write-up, there is an implementation available on GitHub. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Jen Linkova. The Responsible Area Director is Erik Kline. IANA Note IANA is requested to make updates within the "ICMP Extension Object Classes and Class Sub-types" registry. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
