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Bob Hinden and Margaret Wasserman
IPv6 chairs
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Working Group Charter -- DRAFT <ipv6-wg-charter-07.txt>
Chairs:
Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chair Emeritus:
Steve Deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Document Editor:
Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description of the Working Group:
The IPv6 working group is responsible for the specification and
standardization of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 provides
a much larger global addresses space than it predecessor IPv4. This
enables global end-to-end communication and restores valuable properties
of the IP architecture that have been lost in the IPv4 Internet. The
core IPv6 standards are widely implemented and are in the early stages of
global deployment.
The IPv6 working group was originally chartered by the IESG as the IP
Next Generation (IPng) working group 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.
The primary focus of the IPv6 w.g. is to complete the standardization of
the IPv6 protocols.
The working group's responsibilities are:
- Complete work on the IPv6 working group documents as described
below.
- Reviewing and updating IPv6 specifications based on implementation
and deployment experience, and advancing them on the standardization
track as appropriate.
The IPv6 working group's standardization responsibilities are divided
into two areas: Urgent for Deployment, and Completing Current Work.
Priority will be given to the first area. The work items in each
priority area are as follows:
Urgent For Deployment
- Complete work on DNS Resolver Address Auto-configuration and publish.
- Complete Prefix Delegation requirements and publish. Related work is:
o Work with DHCPv6 working group to write DHCPv6 option for IPv6
prefix delegation.
o Develop Proxy Router Advertisement solution for prefix delegation
and publish. This enable a simple site border router to
re-advertise downstream a prefix it hears on it's upstream link.
- Complete revision of IPv6 MIBs (combined IPv4/IPv6 versions) and
publish.
Current Work
- Revise Aggregatable Unicast Addresses (RFC2374) to remove TLA/NLA/SLA
terminology.
- Revise Basic Sockets Extensions (RFC2553) and publish.
- Revise Advanced Sockets API (RFC2292) and publish.
- Complete Default Router Preferences, More-Specific Routes, and Load
Sharing and publish.
- Update to ICMPv6 (RFC2463) and publish.
- Complete Node Information Queries and publish.
- Update Auto Configuration (RFC2462) and Neighbor Discovery (RFC2461)
and publish.
- Update Privacy Extensions for Stateless Autoconfiguration
document (RFC3041) and publish.
- Complete work on IPv6 Node Requirements and publish.
- Complete work on Flow Label and publish.
- Complete work on Scoped Addressing Architecture and publish.
- Update IPv6 over PPP (RFC2023) and publish (may be done in PPP
Extension w.g.).
- Review Point-to-point link support in IPv6 and decide if any IPv6
specifications need to be updated.
All new work items not listed above require the approval of the working
group and IESG before they will be taken on by the working group.
Goals & Milestones
Nov 02 Submit DNS Resolver Address Auto-configuration draft to IESG for
Proposed Standard
Nov 02 Submit Prefix Delegation requirements and submit to IESG for
Informational
Dec 02 Submit update to ICMPv6 (RFC2463) to be republished at Draft
Standard.
Mar 03 Resubmit Node Information Queries to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Jan 03 Submit DHCPv6 option for IPv6 prefix delegation to the IESG for
Proposed standard. Note this milestone may be done by DHC
working group.
Jan 03 Draft on Proxy RA solution
Jan 03 Submit Flow Label specification to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Mar 03 Submit Proxy RA draft and submit to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Mar 03 Submit revision of IPv6 MIBs (combined IPv4/IPv6 versions) to
IESG for Proposed Standard.
Mar 03 Revise Aggregatable Unicast Addresses (RFC2374) to remove
TLA/NLA/SLA terminology.
Apr 03 Submit IPv6 Node Requirements to IESG for Informational.
Jun 03 Submit Router Preferences, More-Specific Routes, and Load
Sharing to IESG for Proposed Standard
Jun 03 Submit updates to Auto Configuration (RFC2462) and Neighbor
Discovery (RFC2461) to be republished at Draft Standard.
Jun 03 Submit Update to Privacy Extensions for Stateless
Autoconfiguration document (RFC3041) to the IESG for Draft
Standard.
Aug 03 Submit IPv6 Scoped Addressing Architecture to IESG for Proposed
Standard
Aug 03 Submit update to IPv6 over PPP (RFC2023) to IESG for Draft
Standard.
