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Title : Free from Using Zone Identifier for IPv6 Link-Local Address
Authors : Hiroshi Kitamura
Shingo Ata
Masayuki Murata
Filename : draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-02.txt
Pages : 16
Date : 2014-02-14
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.
In order to obtain appropriate Zone-ID information, a new
technology "Zone-ID Learning" that issues multiple probes is
introduced.
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-02
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http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-02
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