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	  Minutes from the RIPE IPv6-wg
             
     Chairman : Thomas Trede, Nacamar, Germany
     Scribe : Bernard Tuy, UREC, France
     Attendance: xx persons present 
     Agenda : sent to the mailing list before the meeting
     Reports
     . 6bone (F. Dupont)
       Presenting 6bone maps (sites and core)
       more than 120 sites are now connected to the 6bone 
       (representing #30 countries)
       A new addressing scheme (cf related IETF IDs at http://playground.sun.com)
       is being to be deployed. Top Level Aggregators (in fact, pseudo TLAs) have 
       begun to be allocated to people matching the conditions to get one.
       The pseudo TLAs (pTLAs) list is available at 
             http://www.6bone.net/6bone_pTLA_list.html 
       As an example the aggregated addressing plan in France is shown.
       
       To a question from BT :
         4 people claimed to be deploying this aggregated plan, 
         many are connected to the 6bone and less are using  IPv6 ... !
     . IPv6 Registry (D. Kessens)
       fully operational yet (whois.6bone.net)
       miror sites : whois.nic.fr and whois.ra.net
       26 countries are now registered
       One can find a new whois client able to solve external references at 
       www.isi.edu/~davidk/6bone/
       Inet-num-ipv6 object attributes : (refer to David's Internet Draft
       for the syntax to use to fill every attribute)
         ipv6-site :
         prefix: multiple if needed
         application : apps running at that site
         tunnel: multiple if needed to describe the topology of the site
         contact: NIC-handle from RIPE, InterNIC or 6bone-NIC  ...
         url: how to get more info on this site 
       Test address allocation:
         same object as in IPv4 except the inetnum label !
     . Last IETF meeting (Munich, Germany, Aug. 1997) (Francis Dupont)
       NGtrans-wg : see the minutes of the meeting already sent by email
        . tools : the translation between IPv4 and IPv6 headers (NAT,...)
             is under discussion, various solutions are being considered.
             Cisco has an implementation (the S/w is available from P. Marques)
        . 6bone : a new domain has been set up (6bone.net) 
            BGP4+ is getting the consensus. Strong opposition from Cisco to BGP5
            Implemented by : Cisco, Digital, GateD, Telebit
          Core backbone sites of the 6bone as to move to the new aggregated 
          addressing scheme before Dec 1st.
       IPng-wg : see the minutes of the meeting already sent by email
         . Advancing the IPv6 specifications and related documents to standards 
         . large discussion with the flow label identifier (why and how to use
             it ?),
           still open over the mailing list
         . strong consensus for the MTU specifications (minimal is moving from
           576 to 1300)
       ION-wg :
         . G. Armitage proposal is the only one today
           using MARS for multicasting, NHRP for external routing and Neighbor 
           Discovery for local routing. 
           NBMA's are limited to ATM only today
       IDR-wg : BGP4+ 
         will replace RIPng in the core backbone, before the end of the year.
       IPSEC-wg :
         New drafts are expected, since the 182x serie seems to be obsolete
       Multicast :
         no consistent progress except we have to have new specs based on 
         the new IGMPv2 RFC.
     Implementations :
       refer to the SUN web page (http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/
           ipng-implementations.2.html)
     RIPE IPv6 address assignment :
       Noone in the audience claimed to need an IPv6 address space allocated
       yet.
     Other wg's input :
       DNS ?