FYI. Regards, Thomas ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 06:49:21 -0400 From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> To: IETF-Announce:;;;;@ns.cnri.reston.va.us;@Eng.Sun.COM;;; Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@isi.edu>, Internet Architecture Board <iab@isi.edu>, ipng@sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM Subject: (IPng 6147) Protocol Action: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specifications to Draft Standard The IESG has approved publication of the following Internet-Draft as Draft Standards: o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification <draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-spec-v2-02.txt> replacing RFC 1883, currently a Proposed Standard. o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) <draft-ietf-ipngwg-discovery-v2-03.txt>, replacing RFC1970, currently a Proposed Standard o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-v2-02.txt>, replacing RFC1971, currently a Proposed Standard o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification <draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v2-01.txt> replacing RFC 1885, currently a Proposed Standard The IESG also approved Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 <rfc1981> as a Draft Standard. These documents are the product of the IPNG Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary These documents represent the base protocols for IPv6. The IPv6 Specification defines the base IPv6 packet format and processing rules. The Neighbor Discovery specification defines how to do address resolution for neighboring nodes, as well as to how to locate neighboring routers. The Stateless Address Autoconfiguration document defines how a booting node can generate its own IP addresses without the need to maintain configuration information across machine restarts. The ICMPv6 specification defines the packet formats and processing rules for ICMP for IPv6. The Path MTU Discovery document defines how to perform Path MTU in IPv6. All nodes are required to implement Path MTU in IPv6; routers do not fragment packets they forward. Working Group Summary There is Working Group consensus for the protocols defined in these documents. There were two objections raised during Last Call, but the objections did not have support of the Working Group. However, a small clarification was made to the ICMPv6 spec to make it easier to deploy a new ICMP "Packet Too Big" message, should such a message become defined. Protocol Quality There are numerous implementations of these protocols, and extensive interoperability tests have been done via the UNH consortium and on the 6bone. The documents have been reviewed for the IESG by Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to majordomo@sunroof.eng.sun.com --------------------------------------------------------------------