A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7040 Title: Public IPv4-over-IPv6 Access Network Author: Y. Cui, J. Wu, P. Wu, O. Vautrin, Y. Lee Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: November 2013 Mailbox: yong@csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn, jianping@cernet.edu.cn, pengwu.thu@gmail.com, Olivier@juniper.net, yiu_lee@cable.comcast.com Pages: 13 Characters: 27273 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-softwire-public-4over6-10.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7040.txt This document describes a mechanism called Public 4over6, which is designed to provide IPv4 Internet connectivity over an IPv6 access network using global IPv4 addresses. Public 4over6 was developed in the IETF and is in use in some existing deployments but is not recommended for new deployments. Future deployments of similar scenarios should use Lightweight 4over6. Public 4over6 follows the Hub and Spoke softwire model and uses an IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnel to forward IPv4 packets over an IPv6 access network. The bidirectionality of the IPv4 communication is achieved by explicitly allocating global non-shared IPv4 addresses to end users and by maintaining IPv4-IPv6 address binding on the border relay. Public 4over6 aims to provide uninterrupted IPv4 services to users, like Internet Content Providers (ICPs), etc., while an operator makes the access network transition to an IPv6-only access network. This document is a product of the Softwires Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC