The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Softwire Problem Statement ' <draft-ietf-softwire-problem-statement-03.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Softwires Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Mark Townsley and Jari Arkko. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-softwire-problem-statement-03.txt Technical Summary The Softwires Working Group is specifying the standardization of discovery, control and encapsulation methods for connecting IPv4 networks across IPv6-only networks and IPv6 networks across IPv4-only networks in a way that will encourage multiple, inter-operable vendor implementations. At the highest level, the Softwires Working Group is tasked to identify, and extend where necessary, standard protocols to support a selected set of "IPv4/IPv6" and "IPv6/IPv4" transition problems. This document describes the specific problems ("Hubs and Spokes" and "Mesh") that will be solved as part of a solution phase following the completion of this document, within a relatively tight "time-to-market" as requested by operators at IETF 63. Some individual requirements (and non-requirements) are also identified in this document at times in order to better describe the specific scope for a given problem definition. Working Group Summary One of the primary missions of the softwires WG is to define the problem spaces for which it is going to provide solutions for (one solution per problem space). The WG held its first Interim meeting in Sept 2005, and after much discussion narrowed the space down to problems associated with two general topologies, as defined in this document. Consensus was solid that these were the problems that the WG was going to address in its next phase, and this document has been the basis for that work (which has already advanced considerably). Protocol Quality There is no protocol defined here as this is a problem statement document. The document has been reviewed for the IESG by Mark Townsley, and softwire WG chairs Alain Durand and David Ward. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
