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IPv6 UDP Checksum Considerations
draft-fairhurst-tsvwg-6man-udpzero-02

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Gorry Fairhurst , Magnus Westerlund
Last updated 2010-09-22 (Latest revision 2010-03-22)
Replaced by draft-ietf-6man-udpzero
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

This document examines the role of the transport checksum when used with IPv6, as defined in RFC2460. It presents a summary of the trade-offs for evaluating the safety of updating RFC 2460 to permit an IPv6 UDP endpoint to use a zero value in the checksum field to indicate that no checksum is present. The document describes issues and design principles that need to be considered and provides recommendations.

Authors

Gorry Fairhurst
Magnus Westerlund

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