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

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Alain Durand  <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
     David Ward  <dward@cisco.com>

 Internet Area Director(s):
     Ralph Droms  <rdroms@cisco.com>
     Jari Arkko  <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

 Internet Area Advisor:
     Ralph Droms  <rdroms@cisco.com>

 Technical Advisor(s):
     Xing Li  <xing@cernet.edu.cn>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:softwires@ietf.org
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     Archive:           http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/softwires/current/maillist.html

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