The IESG has received a request from the Transport Area Working Group WG (tsvwg) to consider the following document: - 'Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for Datagram Transports' <draft-ietf-tsvwg-datagram-plpmtud-15.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2020-03-10. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes a robust method for Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) for datagram Packetization Layers (PLs). It describes an extension to RFC 1191 and RFC 8201, which specifies ICMP-based Path MTU Discovery for IPv4 and IPv6. The method allows a PL, or a datagram application that uses a PL, to discover whether a network path can support the current size of datagram. This can be used to detect and reduce the message size when a sender encounters a packet black hole (where packets are discarded). The method can probe a network path with progressively larger packets to discover whether the maximum packet size can be increased. This allows a sender to determine an appropriate packet size, providing functionality for datagram transports that is equivalent to the Packetization Layer PMTUD specification for TCP, specified in RFC 4821. The document updates RFC 4821 to specify the method for datagram PLs, and updates RFC 8085 as the method to use in place of RFC 4821 with UDP datagrams. Section 7.3 of RFC4960 recommends an endpoint apply the techniques in RFC 4821 on a per-destination-address basis. RFC 4960, RFC 6951 and RFC 8261 are updated to recommend that SCTP, SCTP encapsulated in UDP and SCTP encapsulated in DTLS use the method specified in this document instead of the method in RFC 4821. The document also provides implementation notes for incorporating Datagram PMTUD into IETF datagram transports or applications that use datagram transports. When published, this specification updates RFC 4960, RFC 4821, RFC 8085 and RFC 8261. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-datagram-plpmtud/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-datagram-plpmtud/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
