This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet Drafts.
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Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. OSPF routers exchange information on a link using packets that follow a well-defined format. The format of OSPF packets is not flexible enough to enable applications exchange arbitrary data, which may be necessary in certain situations. However, this appears to be very useful to allow OSPF routers to do so. One potential way of solving this task could be introducing a new packet type.