IP MTU Discovery (mtudisc)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 07/27/1997

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     J Mogul  <mogul@decwrl.dec.com>

 Internet Area Director(s):
     Thomas Narten  <narten@us.ibm.com>
     Erik Nordmark  <erik.nordmark@sun.com>

 Internet Area Advisor:
     Thomas Narten  <narten@us.ibm.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:mtudwg@decwrl.dec.com
     To Subscribe:      mtudwg-request@decwrl.dec.com
     Archive:           

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:

   OCT 89       Encourage the participation of gateway implementors, since 
                the MTU discovery process affects the design and 
                performance of IP gateways. 

   Done         Unless the proposal in RFC 1063 is acceptable, write a new 
                RFC describing a different approach. 

   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. 

   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. 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC1191 DS   NOV 90    Path MTU Discovery