Fw: I-D ACTION:draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-00.txt]

["Thomas Trede" <]

FYI.

Regards,
  Thomas Trede

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Haberman" haberman@localhost
To: "IPng Mailing List" ipng@localhost
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-00.txt]


> All,
>      The following is an individual submission discussing automated
> prefix delegation.  The basic idea is that routers can request a prefix
> to use within a network.  Right now, we restrict its use to leaf
> networks, but are working on expanding it.  Comments welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
> Internet-Drafts@localhost wrote:
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
> >
> >         Title           : Automatic Prefix Delegation Protocol for
Internet
> >                           Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
> >         Author(s)       : B. Haberman, J. Martin
> >         Filename        : draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-00.txt
> >         Pages           : 11
> >         Date            : 22-Nov-00
> >
> > The expansion of the IP address space provided by IPv6 makes it both
> > possible and reasonable to allocate entire subnets to environments
> > that had been previously limited to a few individual IP addresses.
> > Other protocols such as Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Address
> > Autoconfiguration allow hosts within those subnets to be
> > automatically configured. The router between this subnet and the
> > upstream world requires just one more piece to make this process
> > automatic, a network prefix.
> > This document describes a mechanism for the automated delegation of
> > an IPv6 network prefix. It allows routers to request a specific size
> > prefix and inform the upstream router of the routing protocols of
> > which it is capable. Upon authorizing the request the delegating
> > router then returns a prefix, the desired routing protocol, and a
> > lifetime for the use of the prefix.
> >
> > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> >
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-00.txt
> >
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> >
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> >
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