IP MTU Discovery (mtudisc)

Charter 
 
Chair(s):
     Jeff Mogul  <mogul@decwrl.dec.com>
 
Internet Area Director(s) 
     Philip Almquist  <almquist@jessica.stanford.edu>
     Stev Knowles  <stev@ftp.com>
     Dave Piscitello  <dave@eve.bellcore.com>
 
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Status: dormant
 
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.             

  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.             

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


Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet drafts.

RFC's:

  RFC  Stat Published    Title 
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RFC1191 PS   Nov 90     Path MTU Discovery