The IESG has approved the following document: - 'SIIT-DC: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation for IPv6 Data Centre Environments' (draft-ietf-v6ops-siit-dc-03.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the IPv6 Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-siit-dc/ Technical Summary This document describes the use of the Stateless IP/ICMP Translation (SIIT) algorithm in an IPv6 Internet Data Centre (IDC). In this deployment model, traffic from legacy IPv4-only clients on the Internet is translated to IPv6 upon reaching the IDC operator's network infrastructure. From that point on, it may be treated the same as traffic from native IPv6 end users. The IPv6 endpoints may be numbered using arbitrary (non-IPv4-translatable) IPv6 addresses. This facilitates a single-stack IPv6-only network infrastructure, as well as efficient utilisation of public IPv4 addresses. The primary audience is IDC operators who are deploying IPv6, running out of available IPv4 addresses, and/or feel that dual stack causes undesirable operational complexity. Working Group Summary Working Group Summary The only real question was whether it belonged in the WG. The WG, in discussion, determined that it constituted an operational procedure comparable to 464xlat, and was therefore within charter. Document Quality The document describes something that is in fact implemented in at least four products from three vendors, and is in use in the author's networks and in other networks, as discussed at IETF 93. Personnel Fred Baker is the document shepherd. The AD is Joel Jaeggli.
