All,
The following is an individual submission discussing automated
prefix delegation. The basic idea is that routers can request a prefix
to use within a network. Right now, we restrict its use to leaf
networks, but are working on expanding it. Comments welcome.
Regards,
Brian
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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> Title : Automatic Prefix Delegation Protocol for Internet
> Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
> Author(s) : B. Haberman, J. Martin
> Filename : draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-00.txt
> Pages : 11
> Date : 22-Nov-00
>
> The expansion of the IP address space provided by IPv6 makes it both
> possible and reasonable to allocate entire subnets to environments
> that had been previously limited to a few individual IP addresses.
> Other protocols such as Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Address
> Autoconfiguration allow hosts within those subnets to be
> automatically configured. The router between this subnet and the
> upstream world requires just one more piece to make this process
> automatic, a network prefix.
> This document describes a mechanism for the automated delegation of
> an IPv6 network prefix. It allows routers to request a specific size
> prefix and inform the upstream router of the routing protocols of
> which it is capable. Upon authorizing the request the delegating
> router then returns a prefix, the desired routing protocol, and a
> lifetime for the use of the prefix.
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