Re: Take VLAN usage as WG document?

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:22:21AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (co-chair hat on)
> 
> The author has asked if the document describing usage of VLANs 
> for IPv6 deployed could be taken as a WG document:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-chown-v6ops-vlan-usage-02.txt
> 
> This is in the charter, and useful as an Informational document.
> 
> Please say what you think.  Silence DOES NOT indicate consent.  If new 
> work items are to be adopted, there must be active support for doing 
> it, and there must be people willing to review and work on the draft.
> 
> The deadline for comments is in about 1.5 weeks, on December 8th.

The technique described is one that is being widely used, at least in
European academic environments.   It is, to many people, a fairly obvious
method to use to enable dual-stack networking via a parallel IPv6 routed
infrastructure, but since many people have also asked how it is done, otr
why, this document was written.

The scenario it addresses is structured/managed IPv6 deployment per link
in a network with no production/commercial IPv6 routing equipment available;
in the case of existing networks using the technique, Linux/BSD routers
are used.

-- 
Tim