Folks,
The Internet Area Directors asked me to announce this ID
to the IPv6 Working Group. Please do not be misled by the title,
it is not an attempt to resurrect RFC 1888 in its entirety.
The ID represents an extraction of section 6 of RFC 1888
- which defines an Internet Code Point (ICP) for encoding an
IPv6 address in an NSAP Address - as well as adding an Internet
Code Point for a similar encoding of IPv4 addresses. The draft
also defines a process for further assignments from the IANA
controlled NSAP Address space that begins with an Address Format
and Identifier (AFI) of 0x35.
As such, the ID re-asserts a previously defined way to use
IPv6 addresses and extends this definition to include a similar
use of IPv4 addresses. It does not attempt to define or modify
the general use of these IPv6 and IPv4 addresses and does not
affect IP addressing architecture in general.
The draft is 10 pages long and is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gray-rfc1888bis-00.txt
The draft was available prior to last week's meeting, but was not
discussed because of: 1) insufficient notice to the WG Chair and
Area Directors and 2) insufficient time during the WG meeting.
--
Eric Gray
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