[rfc-dist] RFC 5497 on Representing Multi-Value Time in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)

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        RFC 5497

        Title:      Representing Multi-Value Time in Mobile 
                    Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) 
        Author:     T. Clausen, C. Dearlove
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       March 2009
        Mailbox:    T.Clausen at computer.org, 
                    chris.dearlove at baesystems.com
        Pages:      14
        Characters: 30653
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-manet-timetlv-08.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5497.txt

This document describes a general and flexible TLV (type-length-value
structure) for representing time-values, such as an interval or a
duration, using the generalized Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) packet/
message format.  It defines two Message TLVs and two Address Block
TLVs for representing validity and interval times for MANET routing
protocols.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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