FYI. This is a revised version of a document the WG discussed in Paris. At the time the WG (at least those in the room) agreed to make this a WG document. But that probably needs to be reevaluated, given the changes.
This version is fairly heavily changed. Pretty much all of the text relating to "conservation of address space" arguments and ideas on using other sized boundaries has been removed. I think that text has been superceded by events, and is really the purview of the RIR community. What I think this document should do is update/replace 3177 and to document any architectural/standards issues related to the /48 boundary (or changing that boundary to something else). Comments welcome (and the document is very short!) Thomas ------- Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Cc: Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:50:03 -0500 Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --NextPart A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : IPv6 Address Allocation to End Sites Author(s) : T. Narten, et al. Filename : draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt Pages : 7 Date : 2006-3-9 RFC 3177 argued that in IPv6, end sites should be assigned /48 blocks in most cases. The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) adopted those recommendations in 2002 and they have been in effect ever since. This document revisits and updates the IAB/IESG recommendations on the assignment of IPv6 address space to end sites. The exact choice of how much address space to assign end sites is a policy issue under the purview of the RIRs, subject to IPv6 architectural considerations. This document reviews those architectural considerations and reiterates that changing the /48 recommendation is one of policy, and has minimal impact on the IPv6 architecture and on IETF Standards. This document obsoletes RFC 3177 and reclassifies it as historic. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt To remove yourself from the I-D Announcement list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. You can also visit https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/I-D-announce to change your subscription settings. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. --NextPart Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess" --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; access-type="mail-server"; server="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ENCODING mime FILE /internet-drafts/draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt --OtherAccess Content-Type: Message/External-body; name="draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-01.txt"; site="ftp.ietf.org"; access-type="anon-ftp"; directory="internet-drafts" Content-Type: text/plain Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --OtherAccess-- --NextPart Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce --NextPart-- ------- End of Forwarded Message -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
