FYI. Regards, Thomas ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:43:49 -0700 From: Steve Deering <deering@cisco.com> To: ipng@sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM Subject: (IPng 6138) revised IPv6 specs New versions of the IPv6 spec and the ICMPv6 spec have been published, as part of the process of advancing these documents from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard. In the IPv6 spec, the IESG identified two parts of the protocol -- Flow Labels and the Jumbo Payload option -- as having insufficient interoperability experience to advance to Draft Standard. Therefore, in order not to hold up the rest of the protocol, the following changes were made: - Most of the Flow Label section was moved to an appendix of the IPv6 spec, with a pointer to the appendix remaining in the main body of the spec. - The Jumbo Payload option was removed from the spec and placed in a separate draft, which was submitted for publication yesterday afternoon. The other changes to the IPv6 spec were (a) revision of the language in the Security Considerations section (to break a standards dependency loop) and (b) in the Flow Label description, changing the constant FFFFF hex to FFFFF (to take account of the previous change of field width from 24 to 20 bits). Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to majordomo@sunroof.eng.sun.com --------------------------------------------------------------------