IP MTU Discovery (mtudisc)

Charter_

Chair(s):
     Jeff Mogul, mogul@decwrl.dec.com
Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  mtudwg@decwrl.dec.com
     To Subscribe:  mtudwg-request@decwrl.dec.com
Description of Working Group:

     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.


Goals and Milestones:


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.
May 1990      Unless the proposal in RFC 1063 is acceptable, write a
              new RFC describing a different approach.
Ongoing       Encourage the participation of gateway implementors,
              since the MTU discovery process affects the design and
              performance of IP gateways.
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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