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[tcpm] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5925 (6406)

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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5925,
"The TCP Authentication Option".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6406

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Type: Editorial
Reported by: Ananth Rajadurai <ananth.nantha@yahoo.com>

Section: Section 5.1

Original Text
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In Section 5.1, Figure 6 - TCP IPv6 Pseudoheader

+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+          Source Address           +
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+                                   +
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+        Destination Address        +
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|      Upper-Layer Payload Length   |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|      Zero       |    Next Header  |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+

Corrected Text
--------------
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+          Source Address           +
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+                                   +
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+        Destination Address        +
|                                   |
+                                   +
|                                   |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|      Upper-Layer Payload Length   |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|            Zero          |Next Hdr|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+

Notes
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In IPv6 pseudoheader,  Zero field should be 3 bytes and Next header should be 1 byte. 
But in RFC 5925, figure 6, it misleads into Zero field 2 bytes and Next header 2 bytes.

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RFC5925 (draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-auth-opt-11)
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Title               : The TCP Authentication Option
Publication Date    : June 2010
Author(s)           : J. Touch, A. Mankin, R. Bonica
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions
Area                : Transport
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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