A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Semantic IPv6 Prefix Author(s) : Sheng Jiang Filename : draft-jiang-semantic-prefix-01.txt Pages : 11 Date : 2012-07-16 Abstract: Some Internet Service Providers and enterprises desire to be aware of more information about each packet, so that packets can be treated differently and efficiently. Packet-level differentiating can also enable flow-level and user-level differentiating. IPv6, with a large address space, allows semantics to be embedded into addresses. Routers can easily apply relevant operations accordingly. This document provides analysis on how to form semantic prefix and corresponding use cases, and identifies the technical requirements to maximize the benefits of the semantic prefix approach. It is recommended to use 4~12 bits in prefix for embedded semantics. This informational document only discusses usage of semantics in a semantic prefix domain. It does NOT intent or suggest to standardize any common global semantics. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-semantic-prefix There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jiang-semantic-prefix-01 A diff from previous version is available at: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-jiang-semantic-prefix-01 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
