A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : hop-by-hop extension header update Author(s) : Zhonghua Chen Sreenatha Setty Tina Tsou Filename : draft-tsou-6man-hbh-header-update-01.txt Pages : 5 Date : 2012-03-12 The Hop-by-Hop Options header is used to convey optional information that must be examined by every node along a packet's delivery path. This document updates RFC2460, removing the requirement that source nodes must process the Hop-by-Hop extension header, on the basis that it imposes a performance impact with no advantages. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tsou-6man-hbh-header-update-01.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tsou-6man-hbh-header-update-01.txt _______________________________________________ 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