WG, This is a very minor update to resolve some nits the WG chairs noticed while preparing the publication request.
Cheers Magnus On 2012-09-05 13:06, [email protected] wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. > > Title : UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets > Author(s) : Marshall Eubanks > P.F. Chimento > Magnus Westerlund > Filename : draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04.txt > Pages : 12 > Date : 2012-09-05 > > Abstract: > This document provides an update of the Internet Protocol version 6 > (IPv6) specification (RFC2460) to improve the performance of IPv6 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 and > thereby improves the efficiency of the traversal of firewalls and > other network middleboxes by such protocols. We describe how the > IPv6 UDP checksum requirement can be relaxed in the situation where > the encapsulated packet itself contains a checksum, the limitations > and risks of this approach, and defines restrictions on the use of > this relaxation to mitigate these risks. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Magnus Westerlund ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimedia Technologies, Ericsson Research EAB/TVM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ericsson AB | Phone +46 10 7148287 Färögatan 6 | Mobile +46 73 0949079 SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden| mailto: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
