The Mobility EXTensions for IPv6 (mext) working group in the Internet Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. Mobility EXTensions for IPv6 (mext) --------------------------------------------- Status: Active Working Group Chairs: Marcelo Bagnulo (marcelo@it.uc3m.es) Julien Laganier (julienl@qualcomm.com) Internet Area Directors: Ralph Droms (rdroms.ietf@gmail.com) Jari Arkko (jari.arkko@piuha.net) Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko (jari.arkko@piuha.net) Mailing Lists: General Discussion: mext@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mext Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/mext Description of Working Group: Mobile IPv6 specifies routing support which permits an IPv6 host to continue using its home address as it moves around the Internet, enabling continuity of sessions. Mobile IPv6 supports transparency above the IP layer, including maintenance of active transport level sessions. In addition, network mobility (NEMO) mechanisms built on top of Mobile IPv6 allow managing the mobility of an entire network, as it changes its point of attachment to the Internet. The base specifications consist of: o RFC 3775 (Mobile IPv6) o RFC 3963 (NEMO) o RFC 4877 (Mobile IPv6 Operation with IKEv2) o RFC 5555 (Dual Stack Mobile IPv6) o RFC 5648 (Multiple Care-of Addresses Registration) o RFC 5846 (Binding Revocation) o RFC-to-be (Flow Binding Policy Transport and Flow Binding Policy Format) The MEXT Working Group continues the work of the former MIP6, NEMO, and MONAMI6 Working Groups. The primary goal of MEXT will be to enhance base IPv6 mobility by continuing work on developments that are required for wide-scale deployments and specific deployment scenarios. Additionally, the working group will ensure that any issues identified by implementation and interoperability experience are addressed, and that the base specifications are maintained. The group will also produce informational documentation, such as design rationale documents or description of specific issues within the protocol. The MEXT WG will also explore experimental alternative security mechanisms. The security mechanism specified in the existing standard track RFCs (RFC3775bis, RFC4877) remains the mandatory to implement mechanism that guarantees interoperability between different implementations. The MEXT WG is chartered to deliver one or more experimental alternative mechanisms. All the alternative solutions will be published as experimental RFCs. In addition, the working group will bring to completion earlier work on prefix delegation for NEMO, RADIUS support for Mobile IPv6, Mobile IPv6 operation with firewalls, and home agent reliability specifications. Work items related to base specification maintenance include: Create and maintain issue lists that are generated on the basis of implementation and interoperability experience. Address specific issues with specific updates or revisions of the base specification. Currently known specific issues include support for overlapping (private) IPv4 home addresses, negotiation of the protection required for payload traffic, and discovery of the home agent address in IPv4-only networks. Goals and Milestones: Dec 2010 Submit the final doc on Prefix Delegation for NEMO to the IESG, for Proposed Standard Dec 2010 Submit the I-D 'RADIUS Mobile IPv6 Support' to IESG for publication as a proposed standard. Dec 2010 Submit I-D(s) related to specific updates and corrections of RFC 3775 to IESG for publication as Proposed Standard. Jan 2011 Submit I-D 'Home agent reliability' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Jan 2011 Submit I-D 'Mobile IPv6 Operation with Firewalls' to IESG for publication as Informational. Aug 2011 Submit I-Ds on alternative security mechanisms to the IESG for publication as Experimental. Sep 2011 Submit I-D 'Overlapping IPv4 address support' to IESG for publication as Proposed Standard. Sep 2011 Submit I-D 'Home agent discovery in IPv4-only networks via DHCP' to IESG for publication as Proposed Standard. Dec 2011 Submit I-D 'Negotiation of the protection for payload traffic' to IESG for publication as Proposed Standard. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
