Mobility for IPv6 (mip6)

Last Modified: 2006-05-24

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Chair(s):

  • Basavaraj Patil <basavaraj.patil@nokia.com>

  • Gopal Dommety <gdommety@cisco.com>

    Internet Area Director(s):

  • Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>
  • Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com>

    Internet Area Advisor:

  • Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

    Mailing Lists:

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    Description of Working Group:

    Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) specifies routing support to permit an IPv6 host to
    continue using its "permanent" home address as it moves around
    the Internet. Mobile IPv6 supports transparency above the IP
    layer, including maintenance of active TCP connections and UDP port
    bindings. The specifications for these mechanisms consist of:

            draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-24 (RFC XXX) and
            draft-ietf-mobileip-mipv6-ha-ipsec-06 (RFC XXX)

    The protocol as specified in the above two documents can be considered
    as  the baseline or minimum protocol set for implementing IPv6
    mobility. During the development phase of the base protocol, a few
    additional features were identified as necessary to facilitate
    deployment (described below).

    The primary goal of the MIP6 working group will be to enhance base
    IPv6 mobility by continuing work on developments that are required for
    wide-scale deployments. Additionally the working group will ensure
    that any issues identified by the interop testing of the MIPv6
    specifications are addressed quickly. Specific work items with this
    goal in mind are listed below:

    1) Create and maintain an issue list that is generated on the basis of
      interop testing and address these issues as enhancements to the
      base protocol

    2) Features such as renumbering of the home link, home agent discovery,
      Route Optimization, which are currently a part of the base
      specification can be specified more explicitly as separate
      specifications. This will also enable modularizing the Mobile
      IPv6 specification further into the minimal subset and add-on
      features. Some of these specifications will be identified as
      base mechanisms of Mobile IPv6.

    3) A number of enhancements to basic IPv6 mobility were identified
      during the development of the base specification. These
      enhancements will be taken up in a phased manner depending on the
      priority identified with each. Below are listed the work items to
      be taken up by the WG:

          - A bootstrap mechanism for setting up security associations
            between the Mobile Node (MN) and Home Agent (HA) that would
            enable easier deployment of Mobile IPv6. This bootstrap
            mechanism is intended to be used when the device is turned on
            the very first time and activates MIPv6. The WG should
            investigate and define the scope before solving the problem.

        - Improving home agent reliability: in the event of a home agent
          crashing, this would allow another home agent to continue
          providing service to a given mobile node.

        - Support for a Mobile Node changing its home address, either
          because of renumbering in its home network or because it
          periodically changes addresses (perhaps via RFC3041)

        - Route optimization will require security mechanisms for
          trusting and updating the binding information.Return-routability
          is the basic mechanism for route-optimization. Mechanisms using
          a shared secret Key/Security Association will be considered.
          Methods for establishing a security association between the
          mobile node and the correspondent node are out of the scope
          of the WG.

        - The working group will also document problem statements
          associated with deploying Mobile IPv6 in the following areas:
            a. Mobile IPv6 issues in the presence of firewalls
            b. Mobile IPv6 deployment and transition issues in the       
                presence of IPv4/IPv6 networks
            c. Multicast issues

    It should be noted that there are potential optimizations that might
    make mobile IP more attractive for use by certain applications (e.g.,
    making handovers "faster"). The latter category of optimizations is
    explicitly out-of-scope at this time; this WG will focus on issues
    for which there is strong consensus that the work is needed to get
    basic mobility deployable on a large scale.

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Submit I-D 'Issues with firewall Problem statement' to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D 'MIPv6 MIB' to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D 'Extensions to Socket Advanced API for MIPv6' to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D 'Alternate Route Optimization (Pre-config Key) scheme' to IESG
    Done  Submit Bootstrapping problem statement to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D 'Authentication Option for MIPv6' to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D 'Identification Option for MIPv6' to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D 'MIPv6 operation with IKEV2 and the revised IPsec Architecture to IESG
    Done  Submit Problem statement and Solution to Mobile IPv6 transition between v4/v6 networks to IESG
    Jul 2006  Submit ID Submit ID 'Motivation for Authentication I-D' to IESG
    Aug 2006  Separate specs for Home Agent (HA) Discovery, Route Optimization, Renumbering to IESG
    Aug 2006  Submit Bootstrapping solution for Integrated Scenario to IESG
    Aug 2006  Submit Bootstrapping solution for split Scenario to IESG
    Sep 2006  Submit I-D 'Goals for AAA HA Interface' to IESG
    Dec 2006  Submit Home agent reliability to IESG

    Internet-Drafts:

    Problem Statement for bootstrapping Mobile IPv6 (52963 bytes)
    Mobile IPv6 Operation with IKEv2 and the revised IPsec Architecture (55134 bytes)
    Using IPsec between Mobile and Correspondent IPv6 Nodes (16277 bytes)
    Goals for AAA-HA interface (24242 bytes)
    Mobile IPv6 bootstrapping in split scenario (78844 bytes)
    Mobility management for Dual stack mobile nodes A Problem Statement (16271 bytes)
    Why Authentication Data suboption is needed for MIP6 (37182 bytes)
    IP Address Location Privacy and Mobile IPv6: Problem Statement (19611 bytes)
    Mobile IPv6 support for dual stack Hosts and Routers (DSMIPv6) (60457 bytes)
    MIP6-bootstrapping via DHCPv6 for the Integrated Scenario (40833 bytes)
    Mobility Header Home Agent Switch Message (21629 bytes)
    Home Agent Reliability Protocol (93477 bytes)
    DHCP Option for Home Information Discovery in MIPv6 (24194 bytes)

    Request For Comments:

    Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents (RFC 3776) (87076 bytes)
    Mobility Support in IPv6 (RFC 3775) (393514 bytes)
    Mobile Node Identifier Option for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) (RFC 4283) (14653 bytes)
    Mobile IP version 6 Route Optimization Security Design Background (RFC 4225) (98584 bytes)
    Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6 (RFC 4285) (40874 bytes)
    Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base (RFC 4295) (209038 bytes)
    Mobile IPv6 and Firewalls: Problem Statement (RFC 4487) (32022 bytes)
    Securing Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization Using a Static Shared Key (RFC 4449) (15080 bytes)
    Extension to Sockets API for Mobile IPv6 (RFC 4584) (53995 bytes)
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