Obsoleting the IPv6 Endpoint Identifier (EID) Option
draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-02

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Obsoleting the Endpoint Identifier (EID) Option' to Proposed Standard (draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-00.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Obsoleting the Endpoint Identifier (EID) Option'
  (draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option-00.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Ronald Bonica.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-intarea-obsolete-eid-option/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

This document formally obsoletes the IPv6 Endpoint Identification (EID) option (hex value 0x8a), thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry, and possibly serving as a basis for providing advice about the filtering of packets containing this option.

Working Group Summary

This draft is not the product of a WG

Document Quality

This document is sufficiently short that document review is trivial.

Personnel

Chris Liljenstrolpe is document shepherd. Ron Bonica is the responsible AD.

RFC Editor Note

OLD>
"However, formally deprecating this option
   may serve as a basis for e.g. providing advice about filtering
   packets containing such option (in a similar way to
   [I-D.ietf-opsec-ip-options-filtering] for the IPv4 case)."
<OLD
NEW>
"However, formally deprecating this option
   may serve as a basis for providing advice about filtering
   packets containing such option (in a similar way to
   [I-D.ietf-opsec-ip-options-filtering] for the IPv4 case)."
<NEW

OLD>
[EID-OPTION]
       LynnRoy, C., "Endpoint Identifier Destination Option",
        Work in Progress, November 1995.
<OLD
NEW>
[EID-OPTION]
       LynnRoy, C., "Endpoint Identifier Destination Option",
       "http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/nimrod/eidoption.txt"
<NEW

- Also, please remove Section 5.1, Normative References, and all of its contents.

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