WG ACTION: IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6) (was ipngwg)
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 06 December 2001 16:00 UTC
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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Subject: WG ACTION: IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6) (was ipngwg)
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:05:47 -0500
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The IESG has approved the updated charter for the IP Next Generation
Working Group (ipngwg). As part of the new charter, the working group name
and acronym is changing from IP Next Generation (ipngwg) to the IP
Version 6 Working Group (ipv6).
For additional information, contact the Area Directors or the WG Chairs
IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6)
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Charter
Last Modified: 05-Dec-01
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com>
Steve Deering <deering@cisco.com>
Internet Area Director(s):
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Erik Nordmark <nordmark@eng.sun.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Editor(s):
Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com>
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Description of Working Group:
IP version 6 or IPv6 (also formerly known as IP Next Generation or
IPng) is intended to support the continued growth of the Internet, both
in size and capabilities, by offering a greatly increased IP address
space and other enhancements over IPv4. The IP Next Generation (IPng)
working group was originally chartered by the IESG to implement the
recommendations of the IPng Area Directors as outlined at the July 1994
IETF meeting and in "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation
Protocol," RFC1752, January 1995. Most of the tasks in that original
charter have been completed, and the core IPv6 protocol specifications
are now on the IETF standards track.
This charter focuses on completing the remaining work items and
providing a home for IPv6 work that spans multiple IETF working groups.
The working group is being renamed the IP Version 6 Working Group
(IPv6) because it is a better description of the working group's focus.
The specific working group's ongoing responsibilities are as follows:
- Complete work from the original charter and follow-on work, as
outlined below.
- Keep all IPv6 working group documents moving along publication /
standardization track.
- Complete work from the original charter and follow-on work, as
outlined below.
- Keep all IPv6 working group documents moving along publication /
standardization track.
- Serve as a review board and body of competence and coordination for
IPv6 architectural issues that span multiple IETF working groups.
- Provide a home for IPv6-related work that doesn't fit in an existing
IETF working group and doesn't merit a working group of its own.
- Provide technical input to the IAB, IANA and Internet Address
Registries with regard to IPv6 address allocation policies and
procedures.
The list of the working group's current work items is as follows:
- Revise and advance to Draft Standard the IPv6 Address
Architecture document [RFC 2373]
- Revise IPv6 Aggregatable Unicast Addresses [RFC 2374], removing the
policy aspects that are considered RIR issues.
- Complete work on recommended address-selection algorithms
- Revise ICMPv6 spec [RFC 2463] (scope-exceeded err, no error to
redirect, editorial)
- Revise Generic Tunneling spec [RFC 2473] (add bidirectional
tunnels)
- Update Basic and Advanced API specs [RFC 2553, RFC 2292]
- Complete Scoped Address Architecture spec and any necessary revisions
to other working group drafts required to properly implement support
for IPv6 address scoping
- Work on host-based solutions to site-multihoming problems (in
coordination with multi6)
- Complete work on local IPv6 networking as part of IPv6
plug-and-play (to be coordinated with other WGs as appropriate,
e.g., dnsext, zeroconf, etc.)
- Document IPv6 renumbering model
- Complete the IPv6 Node Information Queries spec
- Revise and update the base IPv4/IPv6 MIBs and produce a new
consistent set of MIBs that cover IPv4 and IPv6 together.
RFCs to be looked at together: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2096, 2851, 2452,
2454, 2465, 2466 and possibly 3019.
New work items not listed above require the approval of the working
group and Internet Area directors before they will be taken on by the
working group.
The working group would welcome contributions on the following topics
this is not an exhaustive list):
- Flow label standardization
- Solutions to other multihoming issues, beyond those specific to
site-multihoming
- Integration of autoconfiguration, mobility, DNS, service discovery
and other technologies to enhance IPv6 plug-and-play
- IPv6 dial-up issues relating to address assignment, use of Neighbor
Discovery, etc. (not including AAA work)
- Specifications for IPv6 over additional media
- Host use of anycast; TCP use of anycast
- Support for multi-link subnets (single subnet spans multiple links)
- Scope-name discovery
- IPv6 protocol extensions to accommodate mobile wireless networks.
Goals and Milestones:
Jul 01 Revise IPv6 Address Architecture and resubmit to IESG for Draft
Standard
Jul 01 Revise IPv6 Aggregatable Unicast Addresses and submit for
publication as an RFC.
Jul 01 Resubmit the IPv6 Node Information Queries spec
Aug 01 Compete Address Selection specification and submit for Proposed
Standard
Dec 01 Update ICMP document and resubmit for Draft Standard
Dec 01 Complete DNS Discovery draft and submit for Proposed Standard
Dec 01 Update Generic Tunneling specification and resubmit for
Proposed Standard
Dec 01 Complete updates to Basic and Advanced API specifications and
submit for Informational
Mar 02 Complete Scoped Address Architecture and submit for Proposed
Standard
May 02 Submit document describing IPv6 renumbering model for
Informational.
Internet-Drafts:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
------ ------- ------------------------------------------
Jul 97 Jul 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-08.txt>
IPv6 Node Information Queries
Oct 98 Mar 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-02.txt>
A flexible method for managing the assignment of bites of an
IPv6 address block
Jun 99 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-03.txt>
Advanced Sockets API for IPv6
Jun 99 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-02.txt>
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6)for the Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Oct 99 Sep 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-default-addr-select-06.txt>
Default Address Selection for IPv6
Mar 00 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-07.txt>
IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Mar 00 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-scoping-arch-03.txt>
IP Version 6 Scoped Address Architecture
May 00 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-04.txt>
Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
Sep 00 Oct 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-uni-based-mcast-03.txt>
Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Nov 00 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-03.txt>
IPv6 Stateless DNS Discovery
May 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-router-selection-00.txt>
Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
Jul 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-p2p-pingpong-00.txt>
Avoiding ping-pong packets on point-to-point links
Jul 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-anycast-analysis-00.txt>
An analysis of IPv6 anycast
Jul 01 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2012-update-01.txt>
Management Information Base for the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP)
Jul 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2096-update-00.txt>
IP Forwarding Table MIB
Jul 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-analysis-00.txt>
Analysis of DNS Server Discovery Mechanisms for IPv6
Jul 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-temp-addresses-v2-00.txt>
Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in
IPv6
Jul 01 New <draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2011-update-00.txt>
Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)
Jul 01 Nov 01 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2013-update-01.txt>
Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol
(UDP)