A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Connection/Link Status Investigation (CSI) for IPv6 IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option and ICMPv6 messages Extension Author(s) : H. Kitamura Filename : draft-kitamura-ipv6-hbh-ext-csi-01.txt Pages : 43 Date : 26-Oct-99 This document proposes a new mechanism called 'Connection/Link Status Investigation (CSI)'. It is designed to collect status information of nodes along the communication path. One new IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option (CSI option) and three new ICMPv6 messages (Status Request/Reply, and Status Report) are proposed as extensions for the CSI mechanism. The CSI mechanism is based on hop-by-hop data acquisition operations and realtime 'boomerang' action messages. It is simple and can investigate both outgoing and incoming paths between the source and the destination with minimum investigation packets. It can provide various new functions (e.g. realtime consumed bandwidth measurement, etc.). Since it has good characteristics, it is possible to innovate current investigation functions (e.g., 'traceroute', 'pathchar', etc.) This document describes specifications of the CSI mechanism and defines a set of basic data types. The CSI mechanism is designed as a generic framework mechanism. By defining new data types to collect, it can be easily applied to various advanced usages. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kitamura-ipv6-hbh-ext-csi-01.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-kitamura-ipv6-hbh-ext-csi-01.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-kitamura-ipv6-hbh-ext-csi-01.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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