Ngtrans Charter discussion

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Ngtrans Charter discussion

• IPv4 only is reality
• IPv6 only is inevitable
• balkanization or translation ?
• Making it easy/natural to maintain a single
  globally reachable internet, at the application
  level

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IPv6 deployment architectures

• Vision of deployment and related issues in a
  small set of defined environments.
• Goals
• provide network managers with at least one viable
  framework and complete tool set for deploying
  IPv6.
• expose any mismatch between the requirements of a
  target environment and the ngtrans tool set.

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Environments

• Unmanaged Network (SOHO lan)
• Managed Network (Enterprise lan vpn)
• ISP service models
• Dial HFC DSL FtoH 3G
• Services
• www, smtp, IM, ...

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Areas to cover

• How to get started
• Mixed mode operation
• Viability path of removing IPv4
• Manageability
• Security concerns
• Applications and their infrastructure
• Broad common issues may be in separate docs
• ISP architecture issues include
• aaa, prefix allocation, dns registration, tunnel
  services,

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Charter text to be discussed on the list

• The goals of the NGtrans working group is
• Document operational requirements and recommended
  practices for major pieces of the Internet
  infrastructure in a mixed world of IPv4 only,
  IPv6 only and dual stack nodes. Those pieces
  include, but are not limited to Routing, DNS,
  Mail, Network monitoring, Web, Multicast,
  VoIP,...
• This work is to be done in cooperation with the
  relevant experts and/or the relevant working
  groups when applicable.
• Any further work items to be evaluated between
  now and July