[Fwd: I-D Action:draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-02.txt]

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> Thu, 03 July 2008 15:32 UTC

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Hi Folks,
   This draft addresses a lot of comments we received on version -01 of 
the draft. It requests just 1 allocation from IANA for future IPv6 
extension headers and the distinction between different headers is done 
using a specific type field inside the generic extension header.

Thanks
Suresh

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Subject: I-D Action:draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-02.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
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	Title           : An uniform format for IPv6 extension headers
	Author(s)       : S. Krishnan, et al.
	Filename        : draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-02.txt
	Pages           : 9
	Date            : 2008-07-02

In IPv6,optional internet-layer information is encoded in separate
headers that may be placed between the IPv6 header and the transport
layer header.  There are a small number of such extension headers
currently defined.  This document defines a format for defining new
IPv6 extension headers.

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