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<reference anchor="I-D.gont-icmp-payload" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gont-icmp-payload-00">
   <front>
      <title>Increasing the payload of ICMP error messages</title>
      <author initials="F." surname="Gont" fullname="Fernando Gont">
         <organization>UTN/FRH</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="August" day="3" year="2004" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   The original ICMP specification states that when a packet elicits an
   ICMP error message, the IP header plus the next 64 bits of the
   original datagram must be returned in the payload of the ICMP error
   message.  This imposes a constraint on the design of transport-layer
   protocols, which are forced to include all the relevant information
   needed to identify an instance of communication in the first 64 bits
   of their protocol header.  It also limits the amount of data from the
   original packet available to the transport-layer when acting on the
   ICMP error message.  Including only the first 64 bits of the original
   datagram&#x27;s payload may also not be enough to demultiplex ICMP error
   messages if IP is being used to tunnel some other network-layer
   protocol.  This document proposes to increase the amount of data of
   the original datagram to be included in the payload of ICMP error
   messages.
	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-gont-icmp-payload-00" />
   
</reference>
