FYI. Regards, Thomas Trede ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:38:22 -0400 From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com Subject: (IPng 7429) I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-hbh-ext-csi-00.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPNG Working Group of the IETF. Title : Connection/Link Status Investigation (CSI) for IPv6 IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option and ICMPv6 messages Extension Author(s) : H. Kitamura Filename : draft-ietf-ipngwg-hbh-ext-csi-00.txt Pages : 24 Date : 20-Apr-99 This document proposes a new mechanism whereby status information is collected for nodes along both the outgoing and incoming paths. This mechanism is called 'Connection/Link Status Investigation (CSI).' In order to realize the CSI mechanism, one new IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option and three new ICMPv6 messages are proposed as extensions. The CSI mechanism is as simple as the 'ping' mechanism and is also efficient, because ideally the status information of the nodes is collected with a pair of 'request/reply' ICMPv6 messages. By using the CSI mechanism, more efficient and reliable 'traceroute' type functions can be realized. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-hbh-ext-csi-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-ipngwg-hbh-ext-csi-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-hbh-ext-csi-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.