{"draft":"draft-ietf-tls-dtls-heartbeat-04","doc_id":"RFC6520","title":"Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension","authors":["R. Seggelmann","M. Tuexen","M. Williams"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"9","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Transport Layer Security","abstract":"This document describes the Heartbeat Extension for the Transport\r\nLayer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)\r\nprotocols.\r\n\r\nThe Heartbeat Extension provides a new protocol for TLS\/DTLS allowing\r\nthe usage of keep-alive functionality without performing a\r\nrenegotiation and a basis for path MTU (PMTU) discovery for DTLS.  \r\n[STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"February 2012","keywords":["[--------]","tls\/dtls"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC8447"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6520","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6520"}