Protocol Action: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 to Proposed Standard

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Subject: Protocol Action: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 to Proposed Standard
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:55:26 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "Path MTU Discovery for IP
  version 6" <draft-ietf-ipngwg-pmtuv6-03.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This
  document is the product of the IPNG Working Group. The IESG contact
  persons are Scott Bradner and Allison Mankin.


Technical Summary


  This document describes Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6.  It
  defines a method to determine the largest packet size that can
  successfully traverse the path from the source node to the
  destination node.  The procedure is largely derived from RFC-1191,
  which describes Path MTU Discovery for IP version 4.  Since IPv6
  routers do not fragment packets the use of Path MTU Discovery should
  be implemented in all IPv6 nodes which would like to send packets
  greater than the IPv6 minimum packet size (576 bytes) long.

Working Group Summary

 The Working Group Last-Call produced no issues about the proposal.

Protocol Quality

 This document was reviewed for the IESG by Scott Bradner and Allison
 Mankin.

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