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- IP MTU Discovery (mtudisc)
-
- Charter
-
- Chair(s):
- Jeff Mogul <mogul@decwrl.dec.com>
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- Internet Area Director(s)
- Philip Almquist <almquist@jessica.stanford.edu>
- Stev Knowles <stev@ftp.com>
- Dave Piscitello <dave@eve.bellcore.com>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:mtudwg@decwrl.dec.com
- To Subscribe: mtudwg-request@decwrl.dec.com
- Archive:
-
- Status: dormant
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- Description of Working Group:
-
- The MTU Discovery Working Group is chartered to produce an RFC
- defining an official standard for an IP MTU Discovery Option. ``MTU
- Discovery'' is a process whereby an end-host discovers the smallest MTU
- along a path over which it is sending datagrams, with the aim of
- avoiding fragmentation.
-
- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Decide if the proposal in RFC 1063 is sufficient, or if there are
- flaws to be corrected, or possible improvements to be made. Or,
- decide that it is unwise to create an official standard.
-
- Ongoing Encourage the participation of gateway implementors, since the MTU
- discovery process affects the design and performance of IP gateways.
-
- Done Encourage sample implementations of end-host and gateway portions of
- MTU Discovery for popular software (BSD-derived kernels, primarily).
- Encourage rapid implementation by major gateway vendors, since this
- option is relatively useless without widespread support.
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- Done Unless the proposal in RFC 1063 is acceptable, write a new RFC
- describing a different approach.
-
-
- Internet-Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- RFC's:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
- ------- -- ---------- -----------------------------------------
- RFC1191 PS Nov 90 Path MTU Discovery
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