Protocol Action: 'Secure Shell (SSH) Session Channel Break Extension' to Proposed Standard

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Secure Shell (SSH) Session Channel Break Extension '
   <draft-ietf-secsh-break-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Secure Shell Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Sam Hartman and Russ Housley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-secsh-break-04.txt

Technical Summary

    The Session Channel Break Extension provides a means to send a BREAK
    signal over a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal session.

Working Group Summary

    The consensus of the working group was to publish this as a
    standards-track document.

Protocol Quality

    This extension is a replacement for vendor-specific hacks which
    provide the same functionality.  There are known to be multiple
    interoperable implementations of this extension and substantial
    vendor
    interest.

 This specification was reviewed by Sam Hartman for the IESG.

Note to RFC Editor

Section 1: add reference
old:
   "The Secure Shell (SSH) session channel"
new: 
   "The Secure Shell (SSH) [5] session channel"

Section 3: The parameter is always present
old:    BREAK-length parameter is 0 or not present, the BREAK SHOULD be
new:    BREAK-length parameter is 0, the BREAK SHOULD be

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