Revised charter: IPv6

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

Here is a revised charter for the  IPv6 WG. A new charter has been
needed for quite some time, and it would be very good to
get one approved  prior to SF.

One contentious issue is that it does not mention DNS discovery
anymore; it was removed at my request. There will likely be at least
some unhappiness over this in the WG, and my next task is to draft a
note to the WG explaining why I wanted the item out.

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Working Group Charter -- DRAFT 

<ipv6-wg-charter-10.txt>

Chairs:

Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com>
Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>

Description of the Working Group:

The IPv6 working group is responsible for the specification and
standardization of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).  IPv6 provides
a much larger global addresses space than its predecessor IPv4.  This
enables global end-to-end communication and restores valuable properties
of the IP architecture that have been lost in the IPv4 Internet.  The
core IPv6 standards are widely implemented and are in the early stages of
global deployment.

The IPv6 working group was originally chartered by the IESG as the IP
Next Generation (IPng) working group to implement the recommendations of
the IPng Area Directors as outlined at the July 1994 IETF meeting and in
"The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol," RFC1752,
January 1995.

The primary focus of the IPv6 w.g. is to complete the standardization of
the IPv6 protocols.

The working group's responsibilities are:

 - Completing work on the IPv6 working group documents as described
   below, and
 - Reviewing and updating IPv6 specifications based on implementation
   and deployment experience, and advancing them on the standardization
   track as appropriate.

The IPv6 working group's standardization responsibilities are divided
into two areas: Urgent for Deployment, and Completing Current Work.
Priority will be given to the first area.  The work items in each
priority area are as follows:

Urgent For Deployment
 - Complete Prefix Delegation requirements and publish.  Related work is:
    o Work with DHCPv6 working group to write DHCPv6 option for IPv6
      prefix delegation.
    o Develop Proxy Router Advertisement solution for prefix delegation
      and publish.  This enable a simple site border router to
      re-advertise downstream a prefix it hears on it's upstream link.
      Use Multi-Link subnet work as basis for this.  Note: general
      multi-link subnet work will be done elsewhere in the IETF.
 - Complete revision of IPv6 MIBs (combined IPv4/IPv6 versions) and
   publish. 

Current Work
 - Complete work on "A Flexible method to manage the assignment of bits
   of an IPv6 address block".
 - Revise "Aggregatable Unicast Addresses" (RFC2374) to remove TLA/NLA/SLA 
   terminology. 
 - Revise "Basic Sockets Extensions" (RFC2553) and publish.
 - Revise "Advanced Sockets API" (RFC2292) and publish.
 - Complete "Default Router Preferences, More-Specific Routes, and Load
   Sharing" and publish.
 - Update to ICMPv6 (RFC2463) and publish.
 - Complete "Node Information Queries" and publish.
 - Update Auto Configuration (RFC2462) and Neighbor Discovery (RFC2461)
   and publish.
 - Update "Privacy Extensions for Stateless Autoconfiguration"
   document (RFC3041) and publish.
 - Complete work on IPv6 Node Requirements and publish.
 - Complete work on Flow Label and publish.
 - Explore and document the issues with site-local addressing.  Determine
   appropriate limitations on the use of site-local addresses, and
   document those limitations.
 - Complete work on Scoped Addressing Architecture and publish.
 - Update IPv6 over PPP (RFC2472) and publish (may be done in PPP
   Extension w.g.). 
 - Review Point-to-point link support in IPv6 and decide if any IPv6
   specifications need to be updated.
 - Complete work on "Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses" and publish.

All new work items not listed above require the approval of the working
group and IESG before they will be taken on by the working group.

Goals & Milestones

Feb 03  Submit "A Flexible method to manage the assignment of bits
        of an IPv6 address block" to the IESG for Informational.
Feb 03  Submit Flow Label specification to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Feb 03  Submit Routing Table MIB to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Mar 03  Submit Prefix Delegation requirements and submit to IESG for
        Informational.
Mar 03  Draft on Proxy RA solution for prefix delegation.
Mar 03  Revise Aggregatable Unicast Addresses (RFC2374) to remove
        TLA/NLA/SLA terminology. 
Apr 03  Submit update to ICMPv6 (RFC2463) to be republished at Draft
        Standard.
Apr 03  Submit TCP MIB to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Apr 03  Submit IPv6 Node Requirements to IESG for Informational. 
May 03  Resubmit Node Information Queries to IESG for Proposed Standard.
May 03  Submit UDP MIB to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Jun 03  Submit IP MIB to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Jun 03  Submit Router Preferences, More-Specific Routes, and Load
        Sharing to IESG for Proposed Standard
Jun 03  Submit updates to Auto Configuration (RFC2462) and Neighbor
        Discovery (RFC2461) to be republished at Draft Standard.
Jun 03  Submit Update to Privacy Extensions for Stateless
        Autoconfiguration document (RFC3041) to the IESG for Draft
        Standard. 
Jul 03  Submit Proxy RA to IESG for Proposed Standard.
Jul 03  Submit Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses to IESG for Proposed
        Standard. 
Aug 03  Submit IPv6 Scoped Addressing Architecture to IESG for Proposed
        Standard
Aug 03  Submit update to IPv6 over PPP (RFC2472) to IESG for Draft
        Standard. 
Nov 03  Re-charter or close working group.



Thomas