New Generation Transition (ngtrans) Charter


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Chair(s)

IP: Next Generation Area Director(s):

Area Advisor

Mailing List Information

Description of Working Group

The purpose of this group is to design the mechanisms and procedures to support the transition of the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6.

The work of the group will fall into three areas:

1. Define the processes by which the Internet will be transitioned from IPv4 to IPv6. As part of this effort, the group will produce a document explaining to the general Internet community what mechanisms will be employed in the transition, how the transition will work, the assumptions about infrastructure deployment inherent in the operation of these mechanisms, and the types of functionality that applications developers will be able to assume as the protocol mix changes over time.

2. Define and specify the mandatory and optional mechanisms that vendors are to implement in hosts, routers, and other components of the Internet in order for the transition to be carried out. Dual protocol stack, encapsulation and header translation mechanisms must all be defined, as well as the interaction between hosts using different combinations of these mechanisms. The specifications produced will be used by people implementing these IPv6 systems.

3. Articulate a concrete operational plan for transitioning the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6. The result of this work will be a transition plan for the Internet that network operators and Internet subscribers can execute.

The group will use the Simple SIPP Transition (SST) overview document, draft-ietf-sipp-sst-overview-00.txt, as the starting point for its work on the IPv6 transition.

The group will work closely with the main IPng Working Group (IPNGWG) and the IPng Address Configuration Working Group (ADDRCONF). The group will co-ordinate with the TACIT group.

Goals and Milestones

Sep 94
Submit Internet-Draft on General Overview of Transition.
Done
Submit Internet-Draft on Specifications of Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers.
Sep 94
Submit Internet-Draft of Transition Plan for the Internet.
Jan 95
Submit Internet-Draft on Specification of mechanisms for header translating routers.
Done
Sunbmit Specification of Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Apr 95
Submit Specifications for Header Translating Routers document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Jul 95
Submit Specifications of Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers to IESG for consideration as a Draft Standard.
Jul 95
Submit Specification of mechanisms for header translating routers to IESG for consideration as a Draft Standard.

Current Internet-Drafts

No Request for Comments