A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Simplemux. A generic multiplexing protocol Author : Jose Saldana Filename : draft-saldana-tsvwg-simplemux-01.txt Pages : 11 Date : 2015-01-05 Abstract: There are some situations in which multiplexing a number of small packets into a bigger one is desirable. For example, a number of small packets can be sent together between a pair of machines if they share a common network path. Thus, the traffic profile can be shifted from small to larger packets, reducing the network overhead and the number of packets per second to be managed by intermediate routers. This document describes Simplemux, a protocol able to encapsulate a number of packets belonging to different protocols into a single packet. It includes the "Protocol" field on each multiplexing header, thus allowing the inclusion of a number of packets belonging to different protocols on a packet of another protocol. The size of the multiplexing headers is kept very low (it may be a single byte when multiplexing small packets) in order to reduce the overhead. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-saldana-tsvwg-simplemux/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saldana-tsvwg-simplemux-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-saldana-tsvwg-simplemux-01 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. 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