RFC 6520 on Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension

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        RFC 6520

        Title:      Transport Layer Security (TLS) and 
                    Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat 
                    Extension 
        Author:     R. Seggelmann, M. Tuexen,
                    M. Williams
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       February 2012
        Mailbox:    seggelmann@fh-muenster.de, 
                    tuexen@fh-muenster.de, 
                    michael.glenn.williams@gmail.com
        Pages:      9
        Characters: 16858
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tls-dtls-heartbeat-04.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6520.txt

This document describes the Heartbeat Extension for the Transport
Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
protocols.

The Heartbeat Extension provides a new protocol for TLS/DTLS allowing
the usage of keep-alive functionality without performing a
renegotiation and a basis for path MTU (PMTU) discovery for DTLS.  
[STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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