If you're following the current discussion on v6ops, it seems that we need to decide whether to proceed with the subject draft, so that there is at least a marker for what forwarding nodes are supposed to do about extension headers.
So, are there any more comments on the draft? Brian > Hi, > > This version is intended to respond to Ray Hunter's comments. > There are two important changes: > > 1. The MUST NOT that Ray mentioned is now SHOULD NOT. Really > this is a matter of internal consistency in the document, since > the exceptions to the SHOULD NOT are specified, so the MUST NOT > was inappropriate. > > 2. It is now made explicit that only standards-track extension > headers are covered. That knocks out HIP, which is Experimental. > > There are a few other changes of editorial nature. > > Brian + Sheng > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit-01.txt > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:21:08 -0700 > From: internet-drafts at ietf.org > To: i-d-announce at ietf.org > CC: ipv6 at ietf.org > > > 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 : Transmission of IPv6 Extension Headers > Author(s) : Brian Carpenter > Sheng Jiang > Filename : draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit-01.txt > Pages : 9 > Date : 2013-05-29 > > Abstract: > Various IPv6 extension headers have been standardised since the IPv6 > standard was first published. This document updates RFC 2460 to > clarify how intermediate nodes should deal with such extension > headers and with any that are defined in future. It also specifies > how extension headers should be registered by IANA, with a > corresponding minor update to RFC 2780. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit-01 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-ext-transmit-01 > > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
