An update to this document has been posted: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-templin-seal-01.txt
Please use this version as the basis for further review and discussion. Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Templin, Fred L > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RRG] Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL) > > Attached please find a new draft that proposes a > "Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL)". > This work goes a step beyond the sprite-mtu proposal, and > addresses the tunnel MTU determination and duplicate packet > detection problem spaces such as required for LISP, MANET, > etc. But, it also draws on some profound concepts that > were first proposed by others many years ago. (Please see > Appendix A for an historical account and correct anything > I may have mis-characterized.) > > From a bigger picture, the proposal provides a generalized > abstraction for the carriage of IP over any subnetwork that > connects routers, e.g., Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, enterprise > networks, the interdomain routing core, etc. The proposal > is particularly applicable for subnetworks that include > links with diverse MTUs and L2 address formats, as well > as for subnetworks that may incur packet duplication due > to temporal routing loops, flooding, etc. > > Please review and provide comments, > > Fred > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: I-D Action:draft-templin-seal-00.txt > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > > Title : Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer > Author(s) : F. Templin > Filename : draft-templin-seal-00.txt > Pages : 18 > Date : 2008-02-11 > > Subnetworks connect routers within a bounded region, and may also > connect to other networks including the Internet. These routers > forward unicast and multicast packets over paths that span multiple > IP- and/or sub-IP layer forwarding hops which may configure diverse > Maximum Transmission Units (MTUs) and introduce packet duplication. > This document specifies a Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation > Layer (SEAL) that supports simplified duplicate packet detection and > accommodates links with diverse MTUs. > > A URL for this Internet-Draft is: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-templin-seal-00.txt > > To remove yourself from the I-D Announcement list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in > the body of > the message. > You can also visit https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/I-D-announce > to change your subscription settings. > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the > username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After > logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then > "get draft-templin-seal-00.txt". > > A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in > http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html > or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt > > Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. > > Send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the body type: > "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-templin-seal-00.txt". > > NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in > MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this > feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" > command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or > a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail > readers > exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with > "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split > up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on > how to manipulate these messages. > > Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader > implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the > Internet-Draft. > -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
