Interest in IPv6 Hop by Hop options

[Alan Davy <adavy at tssg.org>]

Hi All,

We are currently specifying an IPv6 hop by hop option which will be used 
to carry node related information along a path within a network domain. 
There has been previous proposals submitted to the IETF within this 
area, such as IPv6 Route Record [1] and Connection/Link Status 
Investigation[2]. We are aware of the reasons these proposals have been 
rejected previously, being mainly related to the problems of the hop by 
hop option and the operators unwillingness to share private data.

As such a technique has a variety of useful applications to management 
and monitoring, we believe that a standard method of managing data entry 
within an IPv6 hop by hop option along with standard data format 
templates can be of great benefit to the future development of in-line 
based network management and monitoring protocols. We would like to see 
if there is much interest in specifying such a draft and whether anyone 
would like to assist in the specification of such an Internet Draft. We 
wish to constrain this solution to intra domain (such as DiffServ).

Looking forward to some discussion on this issue.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kitamura-ipv6-record-route-00
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipngwg-hbh-ext-csi-02


Best Regards,
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Alan Davy