The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Prefix Delegation Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6' (draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip-14.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network-Based Mobility Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Ted Lemon. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netext-pd-pmip/ Technical Summary: This specification defines extensions to Proxy Mobile IPv6 protocol for allowing a mobile router in a Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain to obtain delegated IP prefixes for its attached mobile networks. The mobility entities in the network will provide network-based mobility management support for those delegated IP prefixes just as how IP mobility support is provided for the mobile node's home address. Even as the mobile router performs a handoff and changes its network point of attachment, mobility support is ensured for all the delegated IP prefixes and for all the IP nodes in the mobile network that use IP address configuration from those delegated IP prefixes. Working Group Summary: The working group has discussed this I-D at length. Comments by Alexandru Petrescu (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/netext/current/msg02815.html) claimed that the proposal was similar to work being done in other working groups. However the working group members believe that this extension is essential for Proxy Mobile IPv6 and hence needs to be published on its own. Document Quality: The document has been reviewed extensively and revised as a result of these reviews. The quality of the document at this time is good and ready for IESG review. No known implementations of this extension to the Proxy Mobile IPv6 protocol exist. However a few vendors have expressed plans to implement it. All reviewers have been appropriately acknowledged in the I-D. Personnel: Document Shepherd: Basavaraj Patil Responsible AD: Brian Haberman
