IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6) --------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2007-02-20 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Robert Hinden Brian Haberman Internet Area Director(s): Jari Arkko Mark Townsley Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ipv6@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 In Body: subscribe Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/index.html Description of Working Group: The IPv6 working group is responsible for the specification and standardization of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 provides a much larger global addresses space than its predecessor IPv4. This enables global end-to-end communication and restores valuable properties of the IP architecture that have been lost in the IPv4 Internet. The core IPv6 standards are widely implemented and are starting to see global deployment. The IPv6 working group was originally chartered by the IESG as the IP Next Generation (IPng) working group to implement the recommendations of the IPng Area Directors as outlined at the July 1994 IETF meeting and in "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol," RFC1752, January 1995. The primary focus of the IPv6 w.g. is to complete the standardization of the IPv6 protocols, and to review and update the IPv6 specifications based on implementation and deployment experience, and advancing them on the standardization track as appropriate. The working group's work items are as follows: o Complete Prefix Delegation requirements and publish. Related remaining work is: - Develop Proxy Neighbor Discovery solution for prefix delegation and publish. This enables a simple site border router to re-advertise downstream a prefix it hears on its upstream link. o Complete revision of IPv6 MIBs (combined IPv4/IPv6 versions) and publish. o Complete "Default Router Preferences, More-Specific Routes, and "Load Sharing" and publish. o Update to ICMPv6 (RFC2463) and publish. o Complete "Node Information Queries" and publish. o Update Auto Configuration (RFC2462) and Neighbor Discovery (RFC2461) and publish. o Investigate approaches to optimize or eliminate Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) to make reduce the delays incurred by DAD when there is a change of network attachment points. Publish a document defining DAD optimizations. o Update "Privacy Extensions for Stateless Autoconfiguration" document (RFC3041) and publish. o Complete work on IPv6 Node Requirements and publish. o Complete work stemming from the working group decision to deprecate site-local addressing. This includes: - Publish document deprecating the usage of Site-Local addressing. - Publish revision of the IPv6 Address Architecture that includes the deprecation of site-local addressing. - Publish a replacement for site-local addresses that removes the major limitations and allows for local allocations. o Update the IPv6 Address Architecture to resolve the issues raised in the IAB response to the Robert Elz appeal and publish as a Draft Standard. o Complete work on Scoped Addressing Architecture and publish. o Update IPv6 over PPP (RFC2472) and publish. o Complete work on "Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses" and publish. All new work items not listed above require the approval of the working group and IESG before they will be taken on by the working group. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit A Flexible method to manage the assignment of bits of an IPv6 address block to the IESG for Informational. Done Submit Flow Label specification to IESG for Proposed Standard. Done Submit Prefix Delegation requirements and submit to IESG for Informational. Done Revise Aggregatable Unicast Addresses (RFC2374) to remove TLA/NLA/SLA terminology. Done Draft on Proxy RA solution for prefix delegation. Done Submit IPv6 Node Requirements to IESG for Informational. Done Submit Site-Local Deprecation document to IESG for Informational. Done Submit Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit IPv6 Scoped Addressing Architecture to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit TCP MIB to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit Site-Local Deprecation document to IESG for Informational Done Submit Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit Router Preferences, More-Specific Routes to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit updates to Auto Configuration (RFC2462 to be republished at Draft Standard Done Submit update to ICMPv6 (RFC2463) to be republished at Draft Standard Done Submit Load Sharing to IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit document defining DAD optimizations to the IESG for Proposed Standard Done Submit Update to Privacy Extensions for Stateless Autoconfiguration document (RFC3041) to the IESG for Draft Standard Done Submit update to IPv6 Address Architecture to the IESG for Draft Standard Done Submit Proxy ND to IESG for Experimental Done Submit updates to Neighbor Discovery (RFC2461) to be republished at Draft Standard Done Submit update to IPv6 over PPP (RFC2472) to IESG for Draft Standard Done Resubmit Node Information Queries to IESG for Experimental status Jun 2007 Re-charter or close working group. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Feb 2004 May 2005 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration Jul 2004 Mar 2007 Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) Sep 2004 Oct 2006 Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 May 2007 Jun 2007 Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6 Jun 2007 Sep 2007 IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC1885 PS Jan 1996 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) RFC1887 I Jan 1996 An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation RFC1883 PS Jan 1996 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC1886 PS Jan 1996 DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 RFC1884 PS Jan 1996 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture RFC1897 E Jan 1996 IPv6 Testing Address Allocation RFC1981 PS Aug 1996 Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 RFC1970 PS Aug 1996 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) RFC1972 PS Aug 1996 A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks RFC1888 E Aug 1996 OSI NSAPs and IPv6 RFC2019 PS Oct 1996 Transmission of IPv6 Packets Over FDDI RFC2023 PS Oct 1996 IP Version 6 over PPP RFC2073 PS Jan 1997 An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format RFC2133 I Apr 1997 Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 RFC2147 PS May 1997 TCP and UDP over IPv6 Jumbograms RFC2292 I Feb 1998 Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 RFC2373 PS Jul 1998 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture RFC2374 PS Jul 1998 An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format RFC2375 I Jul 1998 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments RFC2464 PS Dec 1998 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks RFC2463 DS Dec 1998 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC2462 DS Dec 1998 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration RFC2461 DS Dec 1998 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) RFC2471 E Dec 1998 IPv6 Testing Address Allocation RFC2470 PS Dec 1998 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks RFC2467 PS Dec 1998 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks RFC2450 I Dec 1998 Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules RFC2466 PS Dec 1998 Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group RFC2465 PS Dec 1998 Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group RFC2454 PS Dec 1998 IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol RFC2452 PS Dec 1998 IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol RFC2460 DS Dec 1998 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC2472 PS Dec 1998 IP Version 6 over PPP RFC2473 PS Dec 1998 Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification RFC2497 PS Jan 1999 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks RFC2507 PS Feb 1999 IP Header Compression RFC2526 PS Mar 1999 Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses RFC2529 PS Mar 1999 Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels RFC2553 I Mar 1999 Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 RFC2675 PS Aug 1999 IPv6 Jumbograms RFC2711 PS Oct 1999 IPv6 Router Alert Option RFC2710 PS Oct 1999 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 RFC2732 PS Dec 1999 Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's RFC2874 PS Jul 2000 DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering RFC2894 PS Aug 2000 Router Renumbering for IPv6 RFC2928 I Oct 2000 Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments RFC3041 PS Feb 2001 Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 RFC3019 PS Feb 2001 IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol RFC3122 PS Jun 2001 Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification RFC3178 I Oct 2001 IPv6 multihoming support at site exit routers RFC3146 PS Oct 2001 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks RFC3306 PS Sep 2002 Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses RFC3314 I Sep 2002 Recommendations for IPv6 in 3GPP Standards RFC3484 PS Mar 2003 Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) RFC3493 I Mar 2003 Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 RFC3513 PS Apr 2003 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture RFC3531 I Apr 2003 A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of Bits of an IPv6 Address Block RFC3316 I May 2003 IPv6 for Some Second and Third Generation Cellular Hosts RFC3542 I Jun 2003 Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6 RFC3587 I Aug 2003 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format RFC3697Standard Mar 2004 IPv6 Flow Label Specification RFC4429 PS Apr 2004 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6 RFC3769 I Jun 2004 Requirements for IPv6 prefix delegation RFC3879Standard Sep 2004 Deprecating Site Local Addresses RFC4022Standard Mar 2005 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) RFC4007Standard Mar 2005 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture RFC4087Standard Jun 2005 IP Tunnel MIB RFC4113Standard Jun 2005 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) RFC4193Standard Oct 2005 Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses RFC4191Standard Nov 2005 Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes RFC4311Standard Dec 2005 IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing RFC4291Standard Feb 2006 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture RFC4443 DS Mar 2006 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification RFC4294 I Apr 2006 IPv6 Node Requirements RFC4293 PS Apr 2006 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP) RFC4292 PS Apr 2006 IP Forwarding Table MIB RFC4389 E Apr 2006 Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy) RFC4489 PS Apr 2006 A Method for Generating Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses RFC4620 E Aug 2006 IPv6 Node Information Queries RFC5072 DS Sep 2007 IP Version 6 over PPP