Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-van-beijnum-shim6-suppress-header-00.txt

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

Here my thoughts about suppressing the shim header written up in a  
draft.

Begin forwarded message:

> 	Title		: Suppressing the Shim6 Header
> 	Author(s)	: I. van Beijnum
> 	Filename	: draft-van-beijnum-shim6-suppress-header-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 5
> 	Date		: 2006-6-20

> 	
> The shim6 protocol defines a header that contains a "context tag" that
> identifies packets as belonging to a certain shim6 context that exists
> between two hosts. It has been suggested that this shim6 header is
> inserted between the IPv6 header and the upper layer protocol such as
> TCP in all packets where the shim layer has rewritten the source  
> and/or
> destination address. This document considers the suppression of this
> header in situations where packets can be successfully  
> demultiplexed by
> the receiver without it.

> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-van-beijnum-shim6- 
> suppress-header-00.txt

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