Softwires (softwire)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2009-04-13

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
    Alain Durand  <[email protected]>
    David Ward  <[email protected]>

Internet Area Director(s):
    Ralph Droms  <[email protected]>
    Jari Arkko  <[email protected]>

Internet Area Advisor:
    Ralph Droms  <[email protected]>

Technical Advisor(s):
    Xing Li  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

No description available


Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Submit a problem statement to the IESG to be considered as an
               Informational RFC

  Nov 2008       Submit Mesh softwire encapsulation and control protocol to the
               IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard

  Nov 2008       Submit H&S softwire encapsulation and control protocol to the
               IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard

  Mar 2009       Submit dual-stack lite to the IESG to be considered as a
               Proposed Standard. The initial basis for this solution is
               described in draft-durand-dual-stack-lite-00.txt and
               draft-droms-softwires-snat-01.txt.

  Dec 2009       Submit softwires MIB to the IESG to be considered as Proposed
               Standard


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Dec 2008 May 2009   <draft-ietf-softwire-lb-03.txt>
               Load Balancing for Mesh Softwires

Mar 2009 Jul 2009   <draft-ietf-softwire-dual-stack-lite-01.txt>
               Dual-stack lite broadband deployments post IPv4 exhaustion

Aug 2009 Aug 2009   <draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-00.txt>
               IPv6 via IPv4 Service Provider Networks

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC4925 I    Jul 2007    Softwire Problem Statement

RFC5512 PS   Apr 2009    The BGP Encapsulation Subsequent Address Family
                      Identifier (SAFI) and the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation
                      Attribute

RFC5549 PS   May 2009    Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information
                      with an IPv6 Next Hop

RFC5543 PS   May 2009    BGP Traffic Engineering Attribute

RFC5566 PS   Jun 2009    BGP IPsec Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute

RFC5565 PS   Jun 2009    Softwire Mesh Framework

RFC5571 PS   Jun 2009    Softwire Hub and Spoke Deployment Framework with Layer
                      Two Tunneling Protocol Version 2(L2TPv2)

RFC5619 PS   Aug 2009    Softwire Security Analysis and Requirements