A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks of the IETF. Title : Rules For Designing Protocols Using the RFC 5444 Generalized Packet/ Message Format Authors : Thomas Clausen Christopher Dearlove Ulrich Herberg Henning Rogge Filename : draft-ietf-manet-rfc5444-usage-04.txt Pages : 24 Date : 2016-05-04 Abstract: RFC 5444 specifies a generalized MANET packet/message format and describes an intended use to multiplex MANET routing protocol messages that is mandated for use by RFC 5498. This document updates RFC 5444 by providing rules and recommendations for how the multiplexer operates and how protocols can use the packet/message format. In particular, the mandatory rules prohibit a number of uses of RFC 5444 that have been suggested in various proposals, and which would have led to interoperability problems, to the impediment of protocol extension development, and to an inability to use optional generic RFC 5444 parsers. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-manet-rfc5444-usage/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-rfc5444-usage-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-manet-rfc5444-usage-04 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt