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- IP Address Encapsulation (ipae)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Dave Crocker <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>
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- Internet Area Director(s)
- Stev Knowles <stev@ftp.com>
- David Piscitello <dave@mail.bellcore.com>
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- Description of Working Group:
- The IPAE Working Group seeks to develop a capability for extending IP to
- support larger addresses while minimizing impact on the installed base of IP
- users. An enhancement to the current system is mandatory due to the
- limitations of the current 32 bit IP addresses. IPAE seeks to upgrade the
- current system, rather than to replace the Internet Protocol. The approach
- taken will be to sandwhich a small addressing layer, above IP but below TCP
- or UDP, with the new layer having its own IP Protocol-ID. This special layer
- will thereby encapsulate new, larger, globally-unique addresses for source
- and destination, as well as any other fields of information that are
- considered essential.
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- The specificaton effort will attend to issues of transition and coexistance,
- among unmodified ``IP'' hosts and hosts which support ``IPAE'' hosts The
- IPAE approach will develop a framework to organize the Internet into areas
- called ``IP Addressing Commonwealths'' within which 32-bit IP addresses are
- unique and are part of a larger, globally-unique Internet addressing scheme.
- It is a goal of this effort to avoid requiring any router within a
- Commonwealth to be modified, but any host wishing full Internet connectivity
- will need to support IPAE eventually. Further, any system wishing to support
- full IPAE addresses will need to be modified, including network management
- software.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Review and approve the Charter at the first Working Group meeting.
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- Done Post the initial IPAE specification as an Internet-Draft.
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- Aug 92 Post the initial ``Addressing'' specification as an Internet-Draft.
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- Done Post the report to the IESG as an Internet-Draft.
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- Done Present work of the IPAE Working Group to the IETF.
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- Jun 93 Post the ``Implementation and Transition'' specification as an
- Internet-Draft.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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- Nov 92 New <draft-ietf-ipae-ipv7-criteria-00.txt>
- IPv7 Criteria Analysis for IP Address Encapsulation (IPAE) and
- the Simple Internet Protocol (SIP)
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- Nov 92 New <draft-ietf-ipae-new-ip-00.txt>
- IP Address Encapsulation (IPAE): A Mechanism for Introducing a
- New IP
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- Request For Comments:
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- None to date.
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