FYI. Regards, Thomas Trede ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:21:52 -0400 From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce:;;;;@ns.cnri.reston.va.us;@Eng.Sun.COM;;; Cc: ipng@sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM Subject: (IPng 6669) I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-00.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPNG Working Group of the IETF. Title : A method for flexible IPv6 address assignments Author(s) : M. Blanchet Filename : draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-00.txt Pages : 4 Date : 22-Oct-98 This draft presents a method for assigning IP address prefixes that enables the IP assigning autority - the organisation that assigns IP address prefixes to other organisations, like a registry to an internet service provider or an internet service provider to a client organisation connected to its network -to postpone the final decision of prefix length by keeping space between assigned bits of the different parts of the IP address. This enables the assigning autority to change the different part lengths of the prefix (TLA (top level aggregator), subTLA, NLA(next-level aggregator) SLA (site-level aggregator), ...) even after allocated spaces. This scheme is applicable to both IPv4 and IPv6 but is envisionned mainly for IPv6 where the address space is larger and more flexible. It is a generalization of RFC1219 and can be used for IPv6 assignments based on RFC2373 and RFC2374. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: Africa: ftp.is.co.za Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au US East Coast: ftp.ietf.org US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.