IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2006-10-16

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Robert Hinden  <bob.hinden@nokia.com>
     Brian Haberman  <brian@innovationslab.net>

 Internet Area Director(s):
     Jari Arkko  <jari.arkko@piuha.net>
     Mark Townsley  <townsley@cisco.com>

 Internet Area Advisor:
     Jari Arkko  <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

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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 

   Dec 2006       Re-charter or close working group. 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Feb 2004 May 2005   <draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2462bis-08.txt>
                IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 

Jun 2004 Jun 2005   <draft-ietf-ipv6-over-ppp-v2-02.txt>
                IP Version 6 over PPP 

Jul 2004 Oct 2006   <draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt>
                Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) 

Sep 2004 Oct 2006   <draft-ietf-ipv6-privacy-addrs-v2-05.txt>
                Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in 
                IPv6 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC1887 I    Jan 1996    An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation 

RFC1883 PS   Jan 1996    Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification 

RFC1885 PS   Jan 1996    Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the 
                       Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) 

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 

RFC2710 PS   Oct 1999    Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 

RFC2711 PS   Oct 1999    IPv6 Router Alert Option 

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