In the Introduction I read
"Mind you, the Null Packet is not created by compressing a packet until it
disappears into nothingness."
That is nice, since I believe that doing so would create a "black hole
packet" that would attract and collapse the whole Internet. On the
plus side, we would not need to worry anymore about IPv6...
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <rfc-editor(_at_)rfc-editor(_dot_)org> wrote:
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 6592
Title: The Null Packet
Author: C. Pignataro
Status: Informational
Stream: Independent
Date: 1 April 2012
Mailbox: cpignata(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com
Pages: 6
Characters: 11036
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-pignataro-the-null-packet-00.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6592.txt
The ever-elusive Null Packet received numerous mentions in documents
in the RFC series, but it has never been explicitly defined. This
memo corrects that omission. This document is not an Internet Standards
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