The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) ' <draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-11.txt> as a Draft Standard This document is the product of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Mark Townsley. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-11.txt Technical Summary This document specifies the Neighbor Discovery protocol for IP Version 6. IPv6 nodes on the same link use Neighbor Discovery to discover each other's presence, to determine each other's link-layer addresses, to find routers and to maintain reachability information about the paths to active neighbors. Working Group Summary This document is a work item of the IPV6 WG. There is strong WG consensus to move this protocol to Draft Standard. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman and Jari Arkko. Note to RFC Editor Please change this: OLD: Once the host sends a Router Solicitation, and receives a valid Router Advertisement with a non-zero Router Lifetime, the host MUST desist from sending additional solicitations on that interface, until the next time one of the above events occurs. Moreover, a host SHOULD send at least one solicitation in the case where an advertisement is received prior to having sent a solicitation. Responses to solicited advertisements are expected to contain complete information. NEW: Once the host sends a Router Solicitation, and receives a valid Router Advertisement with a non-zero Router Lifetime, the host MUST desist from sending additional solicitations on that interface, until the next time one of the above events occurs. Moreover, a host SHOULD send at least one solicitation in the case where an advertisement is received prior to having sent a solicitation. Responses to solicited advertisements may contain more information than unsolicited advertisements. and change this: OLD: EMail: Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu bsimpson@MorningStar.com NEW: EMail: william.allen.simpson@gmail.com _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
