What NGTrans is about (Re: scheduling for August IETF)

[Bob Fink]

6bone/ngtrans folk,

The correct ngtrans charter is not the one Harald gives below (some recent update error on the ITEF web pages seems to have lost the recent charter, and it reverted to an old one).  The current one is (and has been) available at:

	http://www.6bone.net/ngtrans_charter.html

This and other ngtrans info is referenced thru the pointer at the text at the top of the 6bone home page:

	http://www.6bone.net/

I will be discussing the charter, timelines and the various questions of us with Harald, and will keep the list informed as I know more.


Thanks,

Bob

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At 10:04 AM 6/19/98 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>(some hopefully irrelevant CCs deleted)
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>Just to remind you what ngtrans is SUPPOSED to be doing:
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>The purpose of this group is to design the mechanisms and procedures to
>support the transition of the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6. 
>The work of the group will fall into three areas: 
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>1. Define the processes by which the Internet will be transitioned from
>IPv4 to IPv6. As part of this effort, the group will produce a document
>explaining to the general Internet community what mechanisms will be
>employed in the transition, how the transition will work, the assumptions
>about infrastructure deployment inherent in the operation of these
>mechanisms, and the types of functionality that applications developers
>will be able to assume as the protocol mix changes over time. 
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>2. Define and specify the mandatory and optional mechanisms that vendors
>are to implement in hosts, routers, and other components of the Internet in
>order for the transition to be carried out. Dual protocol stack,
>encapsulation and header translation mechanisms must all be defined, as
>well as the interaction between hosts using different combinations of these
>mechanisms. The specifications produced will be used by people implementing
>these IPv6 systems. 
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>3. Articulate a concrete operational plan for transitioning the Internet
>from IPv4 to IPv6. The result of this work will be a transition plan for
>the Internet that network operators and Internet subscribers can execute. 
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>Furthermore, it's supposed to be finished by July 95 :-)
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>I think ngtrans should be asking itself:
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>- What will the group produce?
>- When will it produce it?
>- What else is needed to get the NG transition rolling?
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>Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
>Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no
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