FYI. Regards, Thomas Trede ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 07:44:51 -0400 From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com Subject: (ngtrans) I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ngtrans-broker-00.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Next Generation Transition Working Group of the IETF. Title : IPv6 Tunnel Broker Author(s) : A. Durand, P. Fasano, I. Guardini, D. Lento Filename : draft-ietf-ngtrans-broker-00.txt Pages : 13 Date : 02-Apr-99 The IPv6 global Internet as of today is mostly build using tunnels over the existing IPv4 infrastructure. Those tunnels are difficult to configure and maintain in a large scale environment. The 6bone has proven that large sites and ISPs can do it, but this process is too complex for the isolated end user who already has an IPv4 connection and would like to enter the IPv6 world. The motivation for the development of the tunnel broker model is to help the early IPv6 adopters to hook up to the 6bone and to provide them stable, permanent IPv6 addresses and DNS names. The concept of the tunnel broker was first presented at Orlando's IETF in December 1998. Two implementations were demonstrated in Grenoble IPng & NGtrans interim meeting. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ngtrans-broker-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also 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-ngtrans-broker-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ngtrans-broker-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.