Last Call: <draft-ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid-05.txt> (ICMP Message Extension for Originating Node Identification) to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Tue, 08 September 2026 15:12 UTC

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The IESG has received a request from the Internet Area Working Group WG
(intarea) to consider the following document: - 'ICMP Message Extension for
Originating Node Identification'
  <draft-ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid-05.txt> as Proposed Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final
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Abstract


   RFC5837 describes a mechanism for Extending ICMP for Interface and
   Next-Hop Identification, which allows providing additional
   information in an ICMP error that helps identify interfaces
   participating in the path.  This is especially useful in environments
   where a given interface may not have a unique IP address to respond
   to, e.g., a traceroute.

   This document introduces a similar ICMP extension for Node
   Identification.  It allows providing a unique IP address and/or a
   textual name for the node, in the case where each node may not have a
   unique IP address (e.g., a deployment in which all interfaces have
   IPv6 addresses and all next-hops are IPv6 next-hops, even for IPv4
   routes).




The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid/



No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.

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