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This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Applicability Statement for the use of IPv6 UDP
Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Author(s) : Godred Fairhurst
Magnus Westerlund
Filename : draft-ietf-6man-udpzero-07.txt
Pages : 33
Date : 2012-10-21
Abstract:
This document provides an applicability statement for the use of UDP
transport checksums when used with IPv6. This defines
recommendations and requirements for use of IPv6 UDP datagrams with a
zero checksum. It examines the role of the IPv6 UDP transport
checksum, as defined in RFC2460 and presents a summary of the trade-
offs for evaluating the safety of updating RFC 2460 to permit an IPv6
UDP endpoint to use a zero value in the checksum field as an
indication that no checksum is present. This method is compared with
some other possibilities. The document also describes the issues and
design principles that need to be considered when UDP is used with
IPv6 to support tunnel encapsulations.
XXX NOTE - This revision is a partial response to comments received
during IESG review. There are additional comments to be incorporated
- and updates anticipated to the related PS that updates IPv6. This
is therefore an interim version. XXX
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-udpzero
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