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IP MTU Discovery (mtudisc)
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Charter
Last Modified: 27-Jul-97
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
J Mogul <mogul@wrl.dec.com>
Internet Area Director(s):
Jeffrey Burgan <burgan@home.net>
Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:mtudwg@decwrl.dec.com
To Subscribe: mtudwg-request@decwrl.dec.com
Archive:
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:
Oct 89 Encourage the participation of gateway implementors, since the
MTU discovery process affects the design and performance of IP
gateways.
Done Unless the proposal in RFC 1063 is acceptable, write a new RFC
describing a different approach.
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.
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.
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1191 DS Nov 90 Path MTU Discovery