Re: [v6ops] draft-wbeebee-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-bis - where to go from here

["Hemant Singh (shemant)" <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

At least at the Beijing IETF, I believe there was a some consensus in
the room to adopt this document to work on Advanced IPv6 CE router
features.  James, thanks for your comments - we will look into catering
to your comments in the next version we plan to release by March 4th,
2011.  After the -00 version is submitted, we authors (and our expanded
IPv6 CE router design team) can certainly look into polishing the
document and then see if a -01 copy can be submitted by mid-March, 2011.
I am going by the dates I received in email from v6ops Chair in Fred.
The text in double quotes below is what I received as dates from the
Chair.

"The final date for submission of new (-00) drafts is 7 March. Final
date for updated documents is 14 March. With one exception (a testing
report, for which the proceedings will be the enduring documentation),
any draft that will be discussed in this working group at IETF-80 needs
a draft posted since IETF-79, and should have corresponded with
[e-mail] on the topic."

A bit of news to share with folks.  During the week of February 14th,
there was a week-long IPv6 CE Router Interop held at the UNH Interop
Labs and organized by CableLabs in the U.S.  The summary of this Interop
was that IPv6 CE Routers would be tested behind a cable modem and the
cable modem is connected to a CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System).  A
CMTS is akin to DSLAM and first hop L3 router functionality in DSL.
Since UNH is a short drive from where I work at Cisco in the CMTS router
business unit, I expedited an IPv6 ready CMTS system for this Interop.
The Cisco provisioning server team expedited the Cisco Network Registrar
DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server and provisioning system for the Interop as well.
Thus our totally test-ready system reached the Interop ready to start
testing within the first hour of the Interop to test any IPv6 router
plugged behind a cable modem.  A good number of IPv6 CE router vendors
came to this Interop.  My thanks also go to Cablelabs and Chris Donley
whom I requested during the past IETFs that we should have more that two
IPv6 CE router Interops per year because then we flush IPv6 CE Router
and also IPv6 CMTS issues faster.  Thus Cablelabs organized this event
during February of this year.  

http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/grouptest/feb_14_2010_cable
labs/

Two other Interops occur during April and September at CableLabs in
Denver area.  Amongst other tests, this Interop also focused on testing
our IETF Basic IPV6 CE Router document which is in RFC Editor queue in
Edit state.

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router/

Some issues that I have noticed from the Interop will also cause us to
add more text to the Advanced IPv6 CE router document.  Also, it is up
to the Cablelabs (http://cablelabs.com) and the UNH labs to publish any
testing results and complete list of participants to a wide mailer such
as this one.

Thanks,

Hemant