The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams in Low Power and Lossy Networks (6LoWPAN)' (draft-ietf-6lowpan-hc-15.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IPv6 over Low power WPAN Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ralph Droms and Jari Arkko. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lowpan-hc/ Technical Summary This document specifies an IPv6 header compression format for IPv6 packet delivery in 6LoWPAN networks that replaces the header compression format specified in RFC 4944. The compression format relies on shared context to allow compression of arbitrary prefixes. (How the information is maintained in that shared context is out of scope; among others, this information can be distributed throughout the 6LoWPAN using the 6LoWPAN-ND protocol.) This document specifies compression of multicast addresses and a framework for compressing next headers. UDP header compression is specified within this framework. Working Group Summary This document represents the consensus of the 6LoWPAN community to deprecate the header compression content of RFC 4944 and replace it with a new specification. There has been strong consensus that the compression of arbitrary prefixes is sufficiently important to justify this significant change. Document Quality The document is a product of the 6LoWPAN working group and has been reviewed in detail by a significant number of 6LoWPAN working group members. The principal content of the document has been technically stable for about a year, during which certain fringe cases were identified by implementers and addressed in minor updates to the specification. The specification has been picked up widely in the 6LoWPAN community and has been subject to extensive interoperability testing in vendor organizations such as ZigBee and IPSO. Personnel The Document Shepherd is Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>. The responsible AD is Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com>. RFC Editor Note Please make the following changes in section 4.3.2: OLD: The Upper Layer MAY only provide the authorization in the following cases: NEW: The Upper Layer MUST NOT provide the authorization unless one of the the following cases is satisfied: OLD: The Upper Layer MUST NOT provide the authorization when neither of the above two cases applies. NEW: (delete sentence) OLD: A compressor MUST verify the UDP Checksum before it is elided and SHOULD ensure that the additional integrity check is in place before verifying and eliding the checksum. NEW: A compressor MUST verify the UDP Checksum before it is elided and MUST ensure that the additional integrity check is in place before verifying and eliding the checksum. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
