Internet Engineering Task Force

IPv6 Maintenance (6man)

Last Modified: 2008-12-16

Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/6man

Chair(s):

Internet Area Director(s):

Internet Area Advisor:

Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion: ipv6@ietf.org
To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6
Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6

Description of Working Group:

The 6man working group is responsible for the maintenance, upkeep,
and advancement of the IPv6 protocol specifications and addressing
architecture. It is not chartered to develop major changes or
additions to the IPv6 specifications. The working group will
address protocol limitations/issues discovered during deployment
and operation. It will also serve as a venue for discussing
the proper location for working on IPv6-related issues within
the IETF.

The working group's work items are as follows:

o Complete work on RA Flags Option
o Complete work on RH0 Deprecation
o Complete work on IPv6 over PPP Compression Negotiation
o Complete work on Centrally Allocated Unique Local
Addresses (ULA-C)

All new work items not listed above require the approval
of the working group and the sponsoring Area Director before
they will be taken on by the working group.

Goals and Milestones:

Done		Submit RH0 Deprecation specification to IESG as a Proposed Standard
Jan 2008		Submit PPP Compression Negotiation specification to IESG as a Proposed Standard
Mar 2008		Determine way forward for ULA-C specification

Internet-Drafts:

Solution approaches for address-selection problems (33931 bytes)
IPv6 Node Requirements RFC 4294-bis (48195 bytes)
A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation (26964 bytes)
Considerations for IPv6 Address Selection Policy Changes (43419 bytes)
IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration (44729 bytes)
IPv6 UDP Checksum Considerations (61195 bytes)
An uniform format for IPv6 extension headers (12361 bytes)
An IPv6 Routing Header for Source Routes with RPL (27091 bytes)
RPL Option for Carrying RPL Information in Data-Plane Datagrams (15234 bytes)

Request For Comments:

Negotiation for IPv6 datagram compression using IPv6 Control Protocol (RFC 5172) (14646 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2472
Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers (RFC 5453) (11754 bytes)
Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments (RFC 5722) (11838 bytes) updates RFC 2460
IANA Allocation Guidelines for the IPv6 Routing Header (RFC 5871) (4000 bytes) updates RFC 2460
IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes (RFC 5942) (27035 bytes) updates RFC 4861