Protocol Action: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture to Draft Standard
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Tue, 29 October 2002 22:01 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture to Draft Standard
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:41:17 -0500
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture' <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-11.txt> as a Draft Standard. This document is the product of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Thomas Narten and Erik Nordmark. Technical Summary This specification defines the addressing architecture of the IP Version 6 protocol (RFC 2460). The document includes the IPv6 addressing model, text representations of IPv6 addresses, definition of IPv6 unicast addresses, anycast addresses, and multicast addresses, and an IPv6 node's required addresses. Working Group Summary The WG originally asked to advance this document to Draft standard in 1998, but the IESG pushed back on advancement pending more implementation experience on some aspects of multicast scoping and on concerns over the readiness of advancing the companion "Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format" document with which it had been paired. Since that time, additional interoperability has been demonstrated, and the document is being advanced independent of the other document. There has been (and continues to be) continued support in the WG for advancement of this document. A new IETF Last Call was held in December, 2000. Comments and IESG discussion resulting from the 2nd Last Call resulted in a number of document changes. Those changes included: - removing the Format Prefix (to clarify that implementations should not build in knowledge about any prefixes except ones that are explicitly listed in the specification), - making it clear that all address space was to be treated as global unicast, except in those specific cases where other definitions already existed, - making it clear that reference to RFC 2374 (An Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format) was an example, as address assignment policy is under the domain of the RIRs A full list of changes can be found in the changes section of the document. The document was then Last Called again, and no comments were raised at that time. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Thomas Narten.