IPv6 maintenance Working Group F. Gont (6man) UK CPNI Internet-Draft August 29, 2010 Intended status: Informational Expires: March 2, 2011 Moving the Endpoint Identifier (EID) Option to Obsolete Status draft-gont-6man-obsolete-eid-option-00 Abstract This document recommends that the IPv6 Endpoint Identification (EID) option (hex value 0x8a) be moved to Obsolete status. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on March 2, 2011. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Appendix A. Changes from previous versions of the draft (to be removed by the RFC Editor before publication of this document as a RFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 1. Introduction The Endpoint Identification option (hex value 0x8a) [EID-OPTION] was meant to be used with the Nimrod routing architecture [NIMROD-DOC], but has never seen widespread deployment. Therefore, this document instructs IANA to change the "Destination Options and Hop-by-Hop Options" registry [IANA-IPV6-PARAMETERS] accordingly, marking option 0x8a as "Obsolete". Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 3] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 2. Security Considerations This document has no security implications. RFC Editor: Please remove this section before publication. Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 4] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 3. IANA Considerations IANA is requested to mark option 0x8a in the "Destination Options and Hop-by-Hop Options" registry [IANA-IPV6-PARAMETERS] as "Obsolete", with a reference to this RFC. Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 5] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 4. Acknowledgements Fernando Gont would like to thank CPNI (http://www.cpni.gov.uk) for their continued support. Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 6] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 5. References 5.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 5.2. Informative References [EID-OPTION] LynnRoy, C., "Endpoint Identifier Destination Option", Work in Progress, November 1995. [NIMROD-DOC] Nimrod Documentation Page, "http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/nimrod/". [IANA-IPV6-PARAMETERS] Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Parameters, "http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-parameters". Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 7] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 Appendix A. Changes from previous versions of the draft (to be removed by the RFC Editor before publication of this document as a RFC Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 8] Internet-Draft EID Option to Obsolete Status August 2010 Author's Address Fernando Gont UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure Email: fernando@gont.com.ar Gont Expires March 2, 2011 [Page 9]