Folks,
Attached is a draft of a revised charter for the working group. Updating
the charter was agreed to at the Grenoble and Minneapolis working group
meetings, but it took the chairs and AD's a while to draft a new one.
The charter includes changing the name of the working group to the "IP
Version 6 Working Group", but will keep the acronym of "ipngwg". This will
avoid having to rename all current internet drafts.
Please send comments on the new charter to the mailing list. There will be
a short session in Pittsburgh to discuss it as well.
Bob Hinden / Steve Deering
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IP Version 6 Working Group (ipngwg) *** note: change of name but not acronym
Chair(s):
Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Steve Deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Document Editor
Bob Hinden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Internet Area Director(s):
Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Internet Area Advisor:
Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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 working group was originally
chartered 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.
The 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.
- 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 ICANN, Internet Address Registries, and
IANA with regard to IPv6 address allocation policies and procedures.
- Provide technical input and review to IANA with regard to IPv6
protocol and parameter assignments.
The list of the working group's current work items is as follows:
- Revise ICMPv6 spec (scope-exceeded err, no error to redirect,
editorial)
- Revise Generic Tunneling spec (add bidirectional tunnels)
- Update Basic and Advanced API specs
- Complete Router Renumbering spec
- Complete Scoped Address Architecture spec and any necessary revisions
to other working group drafts required to properly implement support
for IPv6 address scoping
- Complete work on recommended address-selection algorithms
- Work on new solutions to site-multihoming problems, possibly including
both host-based and router-based solutions.
- Complete work on local IPv6 networking as part of IPv6 plug-and-play
- Complete work on privacy extensions to stateless address configuration
- Document IPv6 renumbering model
- Complete the GSE Analysis document
- Complete the Inverse Neighbor Discovery spec
- Complete the IPv6 Node Information Queries spec
- Complete MIB specs as required by any working group protocol specs
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
- Extending MLD to include functionality of IGMPv3
- 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:
Aug 2000 Complete MLD MIB and submit for Proposed Standard
Aug 2000 Complete privacy extensions specification and submit for
Proposed Standard
Aug 2000 Completed revision of GSE Analysis document and resubmit
for Informational
Aug 2000 Complete the Inverse Neighbor Discovery specification
and submit for Proposed Standard
Aug 2000 Complete IPv6 Multihoming with Route Aggregation and submit
for Informational.
Oct 2000 Update ICMP document and resubmit for Draft Standard
Oct 2000 Update Generic Tunneling specification and resubmit for
Proposed Standard
Oct 2000 Complete updates to Basic and Advanced API specifications
and submit for Informational
Dec 2000 Complete Scoped Address Architecture and submit for Proposed
Standard
Dec 2000 Compete Address Selection specification and submit for Proposed
Standard
Dec 2000 Complete Local IPv6 Networking Specification and submit for
Proposed Standard
Dec 2000 Complete the IPv6 Node Information Queries specification
and submit for Proposed Standard
Mar 2001 Complete IPv6 renumbering model document and submit for
Informational
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