A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Free from Using Zone Identifier for IPv6 Link-Local Address Author(s) : Hiroshi Kitamura Shingo Ata Masayuki Murata Filename : draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-01.txt Pages : 14 Date : 2013-10-20 Abstract: This document describes "Zone-ID Free" functions that make end users free from using zone identifiers (Zone-ID) for IPv6 link- local addresses. When users deal with IPv6 link-local addresses, it is thought that it is mandatory thing to specify accompanied Zone-IDs. For end users, however, it is troublesome and nuisance thing to do it. Because it is very hard for normal end users to find appropriate Zone-IDs for this purpose. From another viewpoint, the usage of IPv6 link-local addresses accompanied with Zone-IDs is quite different from the traditional usage of global addresses. Therefore many problems related with Zone-ID are caused and new specifications are required to fix these problems. This document explores and describes how "Zone-ID Free" functions work and how end users are released from using Zone-IDs when they deal with IPv6 link-local addresses. The "Zone-ID Free" functions are upper compatible with the current usages of dealing with IPv6 link-local addresses and harmless to the existing communications. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-01 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. 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