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