Hi All,
As you've seen on the agenda, we'll be holding a discussion in Yokohama
on the priorities of the IPv6 WG. Bob, Steve and I have come up with
a priority list (attached), and we are currently executing on these
priorities.
This list is not in strict priority order, it is grouped into several
categories:
- Urgent for deployment
- Completing current work
- Longer term, but important
- Moving PS specs to DS
Obviously, we are capable of working on many things at once. So, the
order of this list is much less important than what is and isn't included.
At the bottom, we've listed some items that we think should be given
priority within the IETF, but that are outside the scope of the IPv6 WG.
We're very interested in WG opinion regarding these priorities, including
items that should be added, deleted or re-categorized.
Thanks,
Margaret
IPv6 WG Priority List
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Urgent for Deployment:
DNS Discovery
Status: New draft available
Prefix Delegation
Status: Initial requirements draft available
IPv6 MIBs (combined IPv4/IPv6 versions)
Status: Four new MIB drafts available
Completing Current Work:
Default Address Selection
Status: In IESG for PS
Addressing Architecture
Status: In IESG for DS, new draft available with
updates based on IESG feedback.
Aggregatable Unicast Addresses
Status: Waiting for resolution on Addr Arch issues,
then updates required.
Basic Sockets Extensions
Status: In IESG for Informational, update may be
required to resolve normative reference
Advanced Sockets API
Status: In IESG for Informational
Update to ICMPv6
Status: In IESG for PS
Router Preferences & Load Sharing
Status: WG Last Call completed, ready to submit to
IESG for PS
Requirements for Cellular Hosts
Status: Accepted by IESG for Informational
Node Information Queries (in IETF last call)
Status: In IESG for PS
DAD (or DIID?) Fixes to Autoconf, Privacy Addresses and/or Addr Arch
Status: Discussion planned for Yokohama, may require
changes to several specifications
IPv6 Node Requirements
Status: Initial draft available
Longer Term, but Important:
Flow Label
Status: New draft available
Scoped Addressing Architecture
Status: New draft available
IPv6 over 3GPP PDP Contexts (standards track)
Status: Do we need this?
IPv6 over PPP update
Status: Is an update required?
Point-to-point related updates to ND/Autoconf/etc.
Status: Are any updates required?
Moving PS specs to DS:
RFC1886: DNS Extensions for IPv6
Status: Requires updates for .INT -> .ARPA
RFC2464: IPv6 over Ethernet
RFC2467: IPv6 over FDDI
Status: Ready to advance, working on implementation
checklists
RFC2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
Status: Waiting for response from authors
RFC2710: MLD for IPv6
Status: Keep at PS to be updated by MLDv2 from
magma WG
RFC2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addr
Status: Ready to advance, not clear how/if to
document implementation
Priorities for the IETF (not necessarily within IPv6 WG)
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Secure, robust plug-and-play
Multi-link Subnets
Anycast architecture
Routing protocol updates to IPv6 routing protocols (in OSPF, BGP WGs)
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