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Title : Standardizing IPv6 Extension Header Definition
Author(s) : M. Bhatia
Filename : draft-bhatia-6man-update-ipv6-ext-hdr-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 2010-9-26
In IPv6, optional internet-layer information is encoded in
separate headers that may be placed between the IPv6 header and
the upper-layer header in a packet. There are a small number of
such extension headers, each identified by a distinct Next
Header value. However, it presents no backward compatible way
for incrementally introducing new IPv6 extension headers inside
the network.
Additionally since there is no standard format for extension
headers, it becomes impossible for intermediaries that want to
deep inspect the packet to parse an incoming packet which
carries an extension header that it does not recognize.
This document attempts to standardize the IPv6 extension header
format to fix these issues.
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