WG, This document has less changes than UDP zero document. However, please review also these changes.
The largest change is the expansion of the security consideration. Cheers Magnus On 2013-02-21 10:30, internet-dra...@ietf.org 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 : IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets > Author(s) : Marshall Eubanks > AmericaFree.TV LLC > P.F. Chimento > Magnus Westerlund > Filename : draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-08.txt > Pages : 13 > Date : 2013-02-21 > > Abstract: > This document provides an update of the Internet Protocol version 6 > (IPv6) specification (RFC2460) to improve the performance in the use > case where a tunnel protocol uses UDP with IPv6 to tunnel packets. > The performance improvement is obtained by relaxing the IPv6 UDP > checksum requirement for any suitable tunnel 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. The > specification describes how the IPv6 UDP checksum requirement can be > relaxed for the situation where the encapsulated packet itself > contains a checksum. The limitations and risks of this approach are > described, and restrictions specified on the use of the method. > > > 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-08 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-udpchecksums-08 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Magnus Westerlund ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimedia Technologies, Ericsson Research EAB/TVM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ericsson AB | Phone +46 10 7148287 Färögatan 6 | Mobile +46 73 0949079 SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden| mailto: magnus.westerl...@ericsson.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
