(IPng 6138) revised IPv6 specs (fwd)

[Thomas Trede <]

FYI.

Regards,
  Thomas

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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:43:49 -0700
From: Steve Deering deering@localhost
To: ipng@localhost
Subject: (IPng 6138) revised IPv6 specs

New versions of the IPv6 spec and the ICMPv6 spec have been published,
as part of the process of advancing these documents from Proposed Standard
to Draft Standard.

In the IPv6 spec, the IESG identified two parts of the protocol -- Flow
Labels and the Jumbo Payload option -- as having insufficient
interoperability experience to advance to Draft Standard.  Therefore,
in order not to hold up the rest of the protocol, the following changes
were made:

	- Most of the Flow Label section was moved to an appendix of the
	  IPv6 spec, with a pointer to the appendix remaining in the
	  main body of the spec.

	- The Jumbo Payload option was removed from the spec and placed
	  in a separate draft, which was submitted for publication yesterday
	  afternoon.

The other changes to the IPv6 spec were (a) revision of the language in the
Security Considerations section (to break a standards dependency loop) and
(b) in the Flow Label description, changing the constant FFFFF hex to FFFFF
(to take account of the previous change of field width from 24 to 20 bits).

Steve



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