Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04.txt

[Magnus Westerlund <[e-mail]>]

WG,

This is a very minor update to resolve some nits the WG chairs noticed
while preparing the publication request.

Cheers

Magnus

On 2012-09-05 13:06, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>  This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title           : UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets
> 	Author(s)       : Marshall Eubanks
>                           P.F. Chimento
>                           Magnus Westerlund
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04.txt
> 	Pages           : 12
> 	Date            : 2012-09-05
> 
> Abstract:
>    This document provides an update of the Internet Protocol version 6
>    (IPv6) specification (RFC2460) to improve the performance of IPv6 in
>    the use case when a tunnel protocol uses UDP with IPv6 to tunnel
>    packets.  The performance improvement is obtained by relaxing the
>    IPv6 UDP checksum requirement for suitable tunneling protocol where
>    header information is protected on the "inner" packet being carried.
>    This relaxation removes the overhead associated with the computation
>    of UDP checksums on IPv6 packets used to carry tunnel protocols and
>    thereby improves the efficiency of the traversal of firewalls and
>    other network middleboxes by such protocols.  We describe how the
>    IPv6 UDP checksum requirement can be relaxed in the situation where
>    the encapsulated packet itself contains a checksum, the limitations
>    and risks of this approach, and defines restrictions on the use of
>    this relaxation to mitigate these risks.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums
> 
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-04
> 
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
> 
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