Last Modified: 2003-02-03
This charter focuses on completing the remaining work items and providing a home for IPv6 work that spans multiple IETF working groups. The working group is being renamed the IP Version 6 Working Group (IPv6) because it is a better description of the working group's focus.
The specific working group's ongoing responsibilities are as follows:
- Complete work from the original charter and follow-on work, as outlined below.
- Keep all IPv6 working group documents moving along publication / standardization track.
- Complete work from the original charter and follow-on work, as outlined below.
- Keep all IPv6 working group documents moving along publication / standardization track.
- Serve as a review board and body of competence and coordination for IPv6 architectural issues that span multiple IETF working groups.
- Provide a home for IPv6-related work that doesn't fit in an existing IETF working group and doesn't merit a working group of its own.
- Provide technical input to the IAB, IANA and Internet Address Registries with regard to IPv6 address allocation policies and procedures.
The list of the working group's current work items is as follows:
- Revise and advance to Draft Standard the IPv6 Address Architecture document [RFC 2373]
- Revise IPv6 Aggregatable Unicast Addresses [RFC 2374], removing the policy aspects that are considered RIR issues.
- Complete work on recommended address-selection algorithms
- Revise ICMPv6 spec [RFC 2463] (scope-exceeded err, no error to redirect, editorial)
- Revise Generic Tunneling spec [RFC 2473] (add bidirectional tunnels)
- Update Basic and Advanced API specs [RFC 2553, RFC 2292]
- Complete Scoped Address Architecture spec and any necessary revisions to other working group drafts required to properly implement support for IPv6 address scoping
- Work on host-based solutions to site-multihoming problems (in coordination with multi6)
- Complete work on local IPv6 networking as part of IPv6 plug-and-play (to be coordinated with other WGs as appropriate, e.g., dnsext, zeroconf, etc.)
- Document IPv6 renumbering model
- Complete the IPv6 Node Information Queries spec
- Revise and update the base IPv4/IPv6 MIBs and produce a new consistent set of MIBs that cover IPv4 and IPv6 together. RFCs to be looked at together: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2096, 2851, 2452, 2454, 2465, 2466 and possibly 3019.
New work items not listed above require the approval of the working group and Internet Area directors before they will be taken on by the working group.
The working group would welcome contributions on the following topics this is not an exhaustive list):
- Flow label standardization
- Solutions to other multihoming issues, beyond those specific to site-multihoming
- Integration of autoconfiguration, mobility, DNS, service discovery and other technologies to enhance IPv6 plug-and-play
- IPv6 dial-up issues relating to address assignment, use of Neighbor Discovery, etc. (not including AAA work)
- Specifications for IPv6 over additional media
- Host use of anycast; TCP use of anycast
- Support for multi-link subnets (single subnet spans multiple links)
- Scope-name discovery
- IPv6 protocol extensions to accommodate mobile wireless networks.
JUL 01 | Revise IPv6 Address Architecture and resubmit to IESG for Draft Standard | |
JUL 01 | Revise IPv6 Aggregatable Unicast Addresses and submit for publication as an RFC. | |
JUL 01 | Resubmit the IPv6 Node Information Queries spec | |
AUG 01 | Compete Address Selection specification and submit for Proposed Standard | |
DEC 01 | Update ICMP document and resubmit for Draft Standard | |
DEC 01 | Complete DNS Discovery draft and submit for Proposed Standard | |
DEC 01 | Update Generic Tunneling specification and resubmit for Proposed Standard | |
DEC 01 | Complete updates to Basic and Advanced API specifications and submit for Informational | |
MAR 02 | Complete Scoped Address Architecture and submit for Proposed Standard | |
MAY 02 | Submit document describing IPv6 renumbering model for Informational. |
RFC | Status | Title |
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RFC1887 | I | An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation |
RFC1883 | PS | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification |
RFC1885 | PS | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) |
RFC1886 | PS | DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 |
RFC1884 | PS | IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture |
RFC1897 | E | IPv6 Testing Address Allocation |
RFC1981 | PS | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 |
RFC1888 | E | OSI NSAPs and IPv6 |
RFC1972 | PS | A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks |
RFC1970 | PS | Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) |
RFC2019 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 Packets Over FDDI |
RFC2023 | PS | IP Version 6 over PPP |
RFC2073 | PS | An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format |
RFC2133 | I | Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 |
RFC2147 | PS | TCP and UDP over IPv6 Jumbograms |
RFC2292 | I | Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 |
RFC2373 | PS | IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture |
RFC2374 | PS | An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format |
RFC2375 | I | IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments |
RFC2461 | DS | Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) |
RFC2462 | DS | IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration |
RFC2463 | DS | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification |
RFC2464 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks |
RFC2460 | DS | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification |
RFC2452 | PS | IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol |
RFC2454 | PS | IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol |
RFC2465 | PS | Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group |
RFC2466 | PS | Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group |
RFC2450 | I | Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules |
RFC2467 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks |
RFC2470 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks |
RFC2471 | E | IPv6 Testing Address Allocation |
RFC2472 | PS | IP Version 6 over PPP |
RFC2473 | PS | Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification |
RFC2497 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks |
RFC2507 | PS | IP Header Compression |
RFC2526 | PS | Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses |
RFC2529 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels |
RFC2553 | I | Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 |
RFC2675 | PS | IPv6 Jumbograms |
RFC2710 | PS | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 |
RFC2711 | PS | IPv6 Router Alert Option |
RFC2732 | PS | Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's |
RFC2874 | PS | DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering |
RFC2894 | PS | Router Renumbering for IPv6 |
RFC2928 | I | Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments |
RFC3041 | PS | Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 |
RFC3019 | PS | IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol |
RFC3122 | PS | Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification |
RFC3178 | I | IPv6 multihoming support at site exit routers |
RFC3146 | PS | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks |
RFC3306 | PS | Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses |
RFC3314 | I | Recommendations for IPv6 in 3GPP Standards |
RFC3484 | PS | Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) |