IPv6 Maintenance (6man) ----------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2008-12-16 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Robert Hinden Brian Haberman Internet Area Director(s): Ralph Droms Jari Arkko Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ipv6@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6 Description of Working Group: The 6man working group is responsible for the maintenance, upkeep, and advancement of the IPv6 protocol specifications and addressing architecture. It is not chartered to develop major changes or additions to the IPv6 specifications. The working group will address protocol limitations/issues discovered during deployment and operation. It will also serve as a venue for discussing the proper location for working on IPv6-related issues within the IETF. The working group's work items are as follows: o Complete work on RA Flags Option o Complete work on RH0 Deprecation o Complete work on IPv6 over PPP Compression Negotiation o Complete work on Centrally Allocated Unique Local Addresses (ULA-C) All new work items not listed above require the approval of the working group and the sponsoring Area Director before they will be taken on by the working group. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit RH0 Deprecation specification to IESG as a Proposed Standard Jan 2008 Submit PPP Compression Negotiation specification to IESG as a Proposed Standard Mar 2008 Determine way forward for ULA-C specification Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Jan 2008 Mar 2010 Solution approaches for address-selection problems Feb 2008 Mar 2010 IPv6 Node Requirements RFC 4294-bis May 2008 Apr 2010 IPv6 Subnet Model: the Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes Aug 2009 Feb 2010 A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation Oct 2009 Jul 2010 Considerations for IPv6 Address Selection Policy Changes Apr 2010 Jul 2010 IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration May 2010 May 2010 IPv6 UDP Checksum Considerations Jun 2010 Jun 2010 An uniform format for IPv6 extension headers Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC5172 PS Mar 2008 Negotiation for IPv6 datagram compression using IPv6 Control Protocol RFC5453 PS Feb 2009 Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers RFC5722 PS Dec 2009 Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments RFC5871 PS May 2010 IANA Allocation Guidelines for the IPv6 Routing Header