A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Recommended Usage of IPv6 PDM Option Author(s) : Nalini Elkins Michael S. Ackermann Keven Haining Sigfrido Perdomo William Jouris David Boyes Filename : draft-elkins-v6ops-ipv6-pdm-recommended-usage-00.txt Pages : 8 Date : 2013-05-30 Abstract: For a number of Enterprise Data Center Operators (EDCO) both real- time and after the fact problem resolution is critical. Two metrics are critical for timely end-to-end problem resolution, without impacting an operational production network. They are: packet sequence number and packet timestamp. Packet sequence number is required for diagnostics. Packet timestamp is required to calculate end-to-end response time. Current methods are inadequate for these purposes because they assume unreasonable access to intermediate devices, are cost prohibitive, require infeasible changes to a running production network, or do not provide timely data. This document details the recommended usage for the IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics Destination Option (PDM). The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-elkins-v6ops-ipv6-pdm-recommended-usage There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-elkins-v6ops-ipv6-pdm-recommended-usage-00 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