FYI. Regards, Thomas ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 17:30:48 -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 6014) Protocol Action: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture <draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v2-07.txt> for publication as a Proposed Standard. Note: This document is a replacement for RFC1884, which will be reclassified as Historic. o An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format <draft-ietf-ipngwg-unicast-aggr-05.txt> for publication as a Proposed Standard. Note: This document is a replacement for RFC2073, which will be reclassified as Historic. These documents are the product of the IPNG Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary The document "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" specification defines the addressing architecture of the IP Version 6 protocol. This document includes the IPv6 addressing model, text representations of IPv6 addresses (which are 128 bits in length) , definition of IPv6 unicast addresses, anycast addresses, and multicast addresses, and an IPv6 node's required addresses. This document is intended to replace RFC 1884 which will become historic. The document "An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format" defines an IPv6 aggregatable global unicast address format for use in the Internet. The address format defined in this document is consistent with the IPv6 Protocol and the IPv6 Addressing Architecture (mentioned above) and is designed to facilitate scalable Internet routing. This documented is intended to replaces RFC 2073, "An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format" which will become historic. This document is viewed as an improvement over RFC 2073; major changes include removal of the registry bits because they are not needed for route aggregation, support of EUI-64 based interface identifiers, support of provider and exchange based aggregation, separation of public and site topology, and new aggregation based terminology. Working Group Summary These two documents have been the topic of much discussion and consideration, both within the working group and among the IANA and registries. Specifically, the Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format document has been the subject of detailed discussions for well over a year in an attempt to come up with an address format which has the support of many in the Internet community, including the ISPs. In addition, the policies for how TLAs (the top-level prefixes) are assigned to ISPs have been moved to a separate document in order to clearly separate the technical issues from the operational aspects of how the IANA and the registries manage address space. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed by Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten of the IESG. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------