A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics Destination Option Author(s) : Nalini Elkins Michael S. Ackermann Keven Haining US Bank Sigfrido Perdomo William Jouris David Boyes Filename : draft-elkins-6man-ipv6-pdm-dest-option-01.txt Pages : 10 Date : 2013-07-14 Abstract: To diagnose problems for a number of Enterprise Data Center Operators (EDCO), two metrics are critical for timely end-to-end problem resolution, both real-time and after the fact, 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, and / or do not provide timely data. This document solves these problems with a new destination option, the Performance and Diagnostic Metrics destination option (PDM). The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-elkins-6man-ipv6-pdm-dest-option There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-elkins-6man-ipv6-pdm-dest-option-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-elkins-6man-ipv6-pdm-dest-option-01 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