The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Operations WG (v6ops) to consider the following document: - 'SIIT-DC: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation for IPv6 Data Centre Environments' <draft-ietf-v6ops-siit-dc-02.txt> as Informational RFC
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2015-09-22. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes the use of the Stateless IP/ICMP Translation (SIIT) algorithm in an IPv6 Internet Data Centre (IDC). In this deployment model, traffic from legacy IPv4-only clients on the Internet is translated to IPv6 upon reaching the IDC operator's network infrastructure. From that point on, it may be treated the same as traffic from native IPv6 end users. The IPv6 endpoints may be numbered using arbitrary (non-IPv4-translatable) IPv6 addresses. This facilitates a single-stack IPv6-only network infrastructure, as well as efficient utilisation of public IPv4 addresses. The primary audience is IDC operators who are deploying IPv6, running out of available IPv4 addresses, and/or feel that dual stack causes undesirable operational complexity. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-siit-dc/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-siit-dc/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
