NGTRANS Working Group F. Templin INTERNET-DRAFT SRI International T. Gleeson Cisco Systems K.K. M. Talwar D. Thaler Microsoft Corporation Expires 18 October 2002 18 April 2002 Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) draft-ietf-ngtrans-isatap-04.txt Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. 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." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Abstract This document specifies the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) that connects IPv6 hosts and routers (nodes) within IPv4 sites. ISATAP is a transition mechanism that enables incremental deployment of IPv6 by treating the site's IPv4 infrastructure as a Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) link layer for IPv6. ISATAP mechanisms use an IPv6 interface identifier format that embeds an IPv4 address - this enables automatic IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling within a site, whether the site uses globally assigned or private IPv4 addresses. The new interface identifier format can be used with both local and global unicast IPv6 prefixes - this enables IPv6 routing both locally and globally. ISATAP mechanisms introduce no impact on Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 routing table size and require no special IPv4 services (e.g., IPv4 multicast). 1. Introduction This document presents a simple, scalable approach that enables incremental deployment of IPv6 within IPv4-based sites in a manner that is compatible with inter-domain transition mechanisms, e.g., [6TO4]. We refer to this approach as the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol, or ISATAP (pronounced: "ice-a-tap"). ISATAP allows dual-stack nodes that do not share a common link with an IPv6 router to automatically tunnel packets to the IPv6 next-hop address through IPv4, i.e., the site's IPv4 infrastructure is treated as an NBMA link layer. This document specifies details for the transmission of IPv6 packets over ISATAP links (i.e., automatic IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling), including a new EUI-64 [EUI64] based interface identifier [ADDR][AGGR] format that embeds an IPv4 address. This format supports configuration of global, site-local and link-local addresses as specified in [AUTO] as well as simple link-layer address mapping. Simple validity checks for received packets are given. Also specified in this document is the operation of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for ISATAP, as permitted for NBMA links by [DISC]. The document finally presents deployment and security considerations for ISATAP. 2. Applicability Statement ISATAP provides the following features: - treats site's IPv4 infrastructure as an NBMA link layer using automatic IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling (i.e., no configured tunnel state) - enables incremental deployment of IPv6 hosts within IPv4 sites with no aggregation scaling issues at border gateways - requires no special IPv4 services within the site (e.g., multicast) - supports both stateless address autoconfiguration and manual configuration - supports networks that use non-globally unique IPv4 addresses (e.g., when private address allocations [PRIVATE] are used), but does not allow the virtual ISATAP link to span a Network Address Translator [NAT] Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 2] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 - compatible with other NGTRANS mechanisms (e.g., [6TO4]) 3. Terminology The terminology of [IPv6] applies to this document. The following additional terms are defined: link: same definition as [AUTO][DISC]. underlying link: a link layer that supports IPv4 (for ISATAP), and MAY also support IPv6 natively. ISATAP link: one or more underlying links used for IPv4 tunneling. The IPv4 network layer addresses of the underlying links are used as link-layer addresses on the ISATAP link. ISATAP interface: a node's attachment to an ISATAP link. ISATAP prefix: a prefix used to configure an address on the ISATAP interface. This prefix is administratively assigned to the ISATAP link and MUST NOT be duplicated on native IPv6 links. ISATAP address: an IPv6 address with an ISATAP prefix and an ISATAP format interface identifier constructed as specified in section 4. ISATAP router: an IPv6 node that has an ISATAP interface over which it forwards packets not explicitly addressed to itself. ISATAP host: any node that has an ISATAP interface and is not an ISATAP router. 4. Transmission of IPv6 Packets on ISATAP Links ISATAP links transmit IPv6 packets via automatic tunneling using the site's IPv4 infrastructure as an NBMA link layer. Automatic tunneling for ISATAP uses the same mechanisms specified in [MECH,3.1-3.6], i.e., IPv6 packets are automatically encapsulated in IPv4 using 'ip-protocol-41' as the payload type number. Specific considerations for ISATAP links are given below: Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 3] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 4.1. ISATAP Interface Identifier Construction IPv6 unicast addresses [ADDR][AGGR] include a 64-bit interface identifier field in "modified EUI-64 format", based on the IEEE EUI-64 [EUI64] specification. (Modified EUI-64 format inverts the sense of the 'u/l' bit from its specification in [EUI64], i.e., 'u/l' = 0 indicates local-use.) ISATAP specifies an [EUI64]-format address construction for the Organizationally-Unique Identifier (OUI) owned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA]. This format (given below) is used to construct both native [EUI64] addresses for general use and modified EUI-64 format interface identifiers for use in IPv6 unicast addresses: |0 2|2 3|3 3|4 6| |0 3|4 1|2 9|0 3| +------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+ | OUI ("00-00-5E"+u+g) | TYPE | TSE | TSD | +------------------------+--------+--------+------------------------+ Where the fields are: OUI IANA's OUI: 00-00-5E with 'u' and 'g' bits (3 octets) TYPE Type field; specifies interpretation of (TSE, TSD) (1 octet) TSE Type-Specific Extension (1 octet) TSD Type-Specific Data (3 octets) And the following interpretations are specified based on TYPE: TYPE (TSE, TSD) Interpretation ---- ------------------------- 0x00-0xFD RESERVED for future IANA use 0xFE (TSE, TSD) together contain an embedded IPv4 address 0xFF TSD is interpreted based on TSE as follows: TSE TSD Interpretation --- ------------------ 0x00-0xFD RESERVED for future IANA use 0xFE TSD contains 24-bit EUI-48 intf id 0xFF RESERVED by IEEE/RAC Thus, if TYPE=0xFE, TSE is an extension of TSD. If TYPE=0xFF, TSE is an extension of TYPE. Other values for TYPE are reserved for future IANA use. The above specification is compatible with all aspects of [EUI64], Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 4] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 including support for encapsulating legacy EUI-48 interface identifiers (e.g., an IANA EUI-48 format multicast address such as: '01-00-5E-01-02-03' is encapsulated as: '01-00-5E-FF-FE-01-02-03'). But, the specification also provides a special TYPE (0xFE) indicating an IPv4 address is embedded. Thus, when the first four octets of an [ADDR]-compatible IPv6 interface identifier are: '00-00-5E-FE' (note: the 'u/l' bit MUST be 0) the interface identifier is said to be in "ISATAP format" and the next four octets embed an IPv4 address encoded in network byte order. Addresses configured on an ISATAP interface MUST use the ISATAP interface identifier format. 4.2. Stateless Autoconfiguration and Link-Local Addresses ISATAP addresses are IPv6 unicast addresses [ADDR,2.5] with ISATAP format interface identifiers as follows: | 64 bits | 32 bits | 32 bits | +------------------------------+---------------+----------------+ | link-local, site-local or | 0000:5EFE | IPv4 Address | | global unicast prefix | | of ISATAP link | +------------------------------+---------------+----------------+ Link-local, site-local, and global ISATAP addresses can be created exactly as specified in [ADDR], (e.g., by auto-configuration [AUTO] or manual configuration). For example, the IPv6 address: 3FFE:1A05:510:1111:0:5EFE:8CAD:8108 has a prefix of '3FFE:1A05:510:1111::/64' and an ISATAP format interface identifier with embedded IPv4 address: '140.173.129.8'. The address is alternately written as: 3FFE:1A05:510:1111:0:5EFE:140.173.129.8 The link-local and site-local variants (respectively) are: FE80::0:5EFE:140.173.129.8 FEC0::1111:0:5EFE:140.173.129.8 4.3. ISATAP Link/Interface Configuration A node configures an ISATAP link over one or more underlying IPv4 links, i.e., the ISATAP link MAY be configured over one or more link-layer (IPv4) addresses. Each link-layer address 'V4ADDR_LINK' is used to configure a link-local address 'FE80::0:5EFE:V4ADDR_LINK' on an ISATAP interface. ISATAP interfaces MAY be assigned one per Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 5] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 link-layer address, or as a single interface for multiple link-layer addresses. In the former case, the address of each ISATAP interface SHOULD be added to the Potential Routers List (see section 5.2.1). In the latter case, the interface will accept ISATAP packets addressed to any of the IPv4 link-layer addresses, but will choose one as its primary address, used for sourcing packets. Only this address need be represented in the Potential Routers List. 4.4. Sending Rules and Address Mapping The IPv6 next-hop address for packets sent on an ISATAP link MUST be an ISATAP address. Packets that do not satisfy this constraint MUST be discarded and an ICMP destination unreachable indication with code 3 (Address Unreachable) [ICMPv6] MUST be returned. No other sending rules are necessary. The procedure for mapping unicast addresses into link-layer addresses is to simply treat the last four octets of the ISATAP address as an IPv4 address (in network byte order). No multicast address mappings are specified. 4.5. Validity Checks for Received Packets ISATAP interfaces MUST silently discard any received packets that do not satisfy at least one of the following validity checks: - the network-layer (IPv6) source address has a prefix configured on the ISATAP interface and an ISATAP-format interface identifier that embeds the link-layer (IPv4) source address, i.e., source is on-link - the link-layer (IPv4) source address is in the Potential Routers List (see section 5.2.1), i.e., previous hop is an on-link ISATAP router 5. Neighbor Discovery for ISATAP Links Section 3.2 of [DISC] ("Supported Link Types") provides the following guidelines for non-broadcast multiple access (NBMA) link support: "Redirect, Neighbor Unreachability Detection and next-hop determination should be implemented as described in this document. Address resolution and the mechanism for delivering Router Solicitations and Advertisements on NBMA links is not specified in this document." Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 6] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 ISATAP links SHOULD implement Redirect, Neighbor Unreachability Detection, and next-hop determination exactly as specified in [DISC]. Address resolution and the mechanisms for delivering Router Solicitations and Advertisements for ISATAP links are not specified by [DISC]; instead, they are specified in this document. (Note that these mechanisms MAY potentially apply to other types of NBMA links in the future.) 5.1. Address Resolution Protocol addresses (IPv6) on ISATAP links are resolved to link-layer addresses (IPv4) by a static computation, i.e., the last four octets are treated as an IPv4 address. Thus the functions and conceptual data structures used by [DISC] for the purpose of address resolution are not required. The conceptual "neighbor cache" described in [DISC] is still needed for other functions, such as neighbor unreachability detection, but it is not used for address resolution. The link-layer address option used in [DISC] is not needed. Link-layer address options SHOULD NOT be sent in any Neighbor Discovery packets, and MUST be silently ignored in any received Neighbor Discovery packets. 5.2. Router and Prefix Discovery Since the site's IPv4 infrastructure is treated as an NBMA link layer, unsolicited Router Advertisements do not provide sufficient means for router discovery on ISATAP links. Thus, alternate mechanisms are required and specified below: 5.2.1. Conceptual Data Structures ISATAP nodes use the conceptual data structures Prefix List and Default Router List exactly as specified in [DISC,5.1]. ISATAP links add a new conceptual data structure "Potential Router List" and the following new configuration variable: ResolveInterval Time between name service resolutions. Default and suggested minimum: 1hr A Potential Router List (PRL) is associated with every ISATAP link. The PRL provides context for router discovery and a trust basis for router validation (see security considerations). Each entry in the PRL has an IPv4 address and an associated timer used for polling. The IPv4 address represents a router's ISATAP interface (likely to be an Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 7] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 "advertising interface"), and is used to construct the ISATAP link-local address for that interface. When a node enables an ISATAP link, it initializes the Potential Router List (PRL) for that link. Unless other information is available (e.g., manual address configuration, a vendor-specific DHCP option, etc.) the following method (similar to the [SIP, 1.4.2] procedure) SHOULD be used: 1. The site administrator maintains address records for ISATAP router interfaces, and makes these available in the site's name service. Nodes attempt to find one or more addresses for the PRL by querying the name service. 2. There are no mandatory rules on the selection of domain name to be used within a site for this purpose, but administrators are encouraged to use the "isatap.domainname" convention (e.g., isatap.example.com), as specified in [RFC2219]. Nodes can construct this domain name by prepending the label "isatap" to their parent domain name, which is established by other means. Nodes then query this domain name for address records (e.g., DNS 'A' resource records), and initialize the PRL with the IPv4 addresses in the replies. 3. After initialization, nodes periodically repeat the above procedure every ResolveInterval seconds to update the PRL with any IPv4 addresses added/deleted since the previous iteration. When DNS is used, nodes MUST follow the procedures in [RFC1035] regarding cache invalidation when the DNS time-to-live expires. 5.2.2. Validation of Router Advertisement Messages A node MUST silently discard any received Router Advertisement messages that do not satisfy the validity checks in [DISC,6.1.2] as well as the following additional validity check for ISATAP: - the network-layer (IPv6) source address is derived from an IPv4 address in the PRL 5.2.3. Router Specification Advertising ISATAP interfaces of routers behave the same as advertising interfaces described in [DISC,6.2]. However, periodic unsolicited multicast Router Advertisements are not required, thus the "interval timer" associated with advertising interfaces is not used for that purpose. Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 8] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 When an ISATAP router receives a valid Router Solicitation on an advertising ISATAP interface, it replies with a unicast Router Advertisement to the address of the node which sent the Router Solicitation. The source address of the Router Advertisement is a link-local unicast address associated with the interface. This MAY be the same as the destination address of the Router Solicitation. ISATAP routers MAY engage in the polling process described under Host Specification below (e.g. if Router Advertisement consistency verification [DISC,6.2.7] is desired), but this is not required. 5.2.4. Host Specification Hosts periodically poll each entry in the PRL ("PRL(i)") by sending unicast Router Solicitation messages using the IPv4 address ("V4ADDR_PRL(i)") and associated timer in the entry. Hosts add the following variable to support the polling process: MinRouterSolicitInterval Minimum time between sending Router Solicitations to any router. Default and suggested minimum: 15min When PRL(i) is first added to the list, the host sets its associated timer to MinRouterSolicitInterval. Entries are polled when they are created (following a short delay as for initial solicitations [ND,6.3.7]), and when the associated timer expires. Polling consists of sending Router Solicitations to the ISATAP link-local address constructed from the entry's IPv4 address, i.e., they are sent to 'FE80::0:5EFE:V4ADDR_PRL(i)' instead of 'All-Routers multicast'. They are otherwise sent in the same manner described in [DISC,6.3.7]. When the host receives a valid Router Advertisement (i.e., one that satisfies the validity checks in sections 4.5 and 5.2.2) it processes them in the same manner described in [DISC,6.3.4]. The host additionally resets the timer associated with the PRL entry that matches the network-layer source address in the Router Advertisement. The timer is reset to either 0.5 * (the minimum value in the router lifetime or valid lifetime of any on-link prefixes advertised) or MinRouterSolicitInterval; whichever is longer. 6. ISATAP Deployment Considerations Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 9] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 6.1. Host And Router Deployment Considerations For hosts, if an underlying link supports both IPv4 (over which ISATAP is implemented) and also supports IPv6 natively, then ISATAP MAY be enabled if the native IPv6 layer does not receive Router Advertisements (i.e., does not have connection with an IPv6 router). After a non-link-local address has been configured and a default router acquired on the native link, the host SHOULD discontinue the 'Router Polling Process' process specified in section 5.2.4 and allow existing ISATAP address configurations to expire as specified in [DISC,5.3][AUTO,5.5.4]. In this way, ISATAP use will gradually diminish as IPv6 routers are widely deployed throughout the site. Routers MAY configure a native link to simultaneously support both native IPv6, and also ISATAP (over IPv4). Routing will operate as usual between these two domains. Note that the prefixes used on the ISATAP and native IPv6 interfaces will be distinct. The IPv4 address(es) configured on a router's ISATAP interface(s) SHOULD be added (either automatically or manually) to the site's address records for ISATAP router interfaces (see section 5.2.1). 6.2. Site Administration Considerations The following considerations are noted for sites that deploy ISATAP: - ISATAP links are administratively defined by a set of router interfaces, and set of nodes which have those interface addresses in their potential router lists. Thus, ISATAP links are defined by administrative (not physical) boundaries. - ISATAP hosts and routers can be deployed in an ad-hoc and independent fashion. In particular, ISATAP hosts can be deployed with little/no advanced knowledge of existing ISATAP routers, and ISATAP routers can deployed with no reconfiguration requirements for hosts. - ISATAP nodes periodically send Router Solicitations to all entries in the Potential Router List. Worst-case control traffic is on the order of (M x N), where 'M' is the number of routers in the Potential Router List and 'N' is the total number of nodes on the ISATAP link. The MinRouterSolicitInterval ([5.2.4]) bounds control traffic for large numbers of nodes even in worst-case scenarios. - ISATAP nodes periodically refresh the entries on the PRL, typically by polling the DNS. Responsible site administration, along with robust protocol implementations, can provide significant reductions in control traffic. At a minimum, administrators SHOULD ensure that the site's address records for ISATAP router interfaces (see Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 10] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 section 5.2.1) are well maintained. 7. IANA considerations We propose that IANA adopt the interface identifier construction specified in section 4.1 for the existing IANA IEEE OUI registration ('00-00-5E'). 8. Security considerations Site administrators are advised that, in addition to possible attacks against IPv6, security attacks against IPv4 MUST also be considered. Many security considerations in [6OVER4,9] apply also to ISATAP. Responsible IPv4 site security management is strongly encouraged. In particular, border gateways SHOULD implement filtering to detect spoofed IPv4 source addresses at a minimum; ip-protocol-41 filtering SHOULD also be implemented. If IPv4 source address filtering is not correctly implemented, the validity checks in section 4.7 will not be effective in preventing IPv6 source address spoofing. If filtering for ip-protocol-41 is not correctly implemented, IPv6 source address spoofing is clearly possible, but this can be eliminated if both IPv4 source address filtering, and the validity checks in section 4.7 are implemented. [DISC,6.1.2] implies that nodes trust Router Advertisements they receive from on-link routers, as indicated by a value of 255 in the IPv6 'hop-limit' field. Since this field is not decremented when ip-protocol-41 packets traverse multiple IPv4 hops [MECH,3.3], ISATAP links require a different trust model. In particular, ONLY those Router Advertisements received from a member of the Potential Routers List are trusted; all others are silently discarded (see section 5.2.2). This trust model is predicated on IPv4 source address filtering, as described above. The ISATAP address format does not support privacy extensions for stateless address autoconfiguration [PRIVACY]. However, since the ISATAP interface identifier is derived from the node's IPv4 address, ISATAP addresses do not have the same level of privacy concerns as IPv6 addresses that use an interface identifier derived from the MAC address. Acknowledgements Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 11] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 Some of the ideas presented in this draft were derived from work at SRI with internal funds and contractual support. Government sponsors who supported the work include Monica Farah-Stapleton and Russell Langan from U.S. Army CECOM ASEO, and Dr. Allen Moshfegh from U.S. Office of Naval Research. Within SRI, Dr. Mike Frankel, J. Peter Marcotullio, Lou Rodriguez, and Dr. Ambatipudi Sastry supported the work and helped foster early interest. The following peer reviewers are acknowledged for taking the time to review a pre-release of this document and provide input: Jim Bound, Rich Draves, Cyndi Jung, Ambatipudi Sastry, Aaron Schrader, Ole Troan, Vlad Yasevich. The authors acknowledge members of the NGTRANS community who have made significant contributions to this effort, including Rich Draves, Alain Durand, Nathan Lutchansky, Art Shelest, Margaret Wasserman, and Brian Zill. Finally, the authors recognize that ideas similar to those in this document may have already been presented by others and wish to acknowledge any other such contributions. Normative References [ADDR] Hinden, R., and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture", RFC 2373, July 1998. (Pending approval of "addr-arch-v3"). [AGGR] Hinden., R, O'Dell, M., and Deering, S., "An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format", RFC 2374, July 1998. [AUTO] Thomson, S., and T. Narten, "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 2462, December 1998. [DISC] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., and W. Simpson, "Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2461, December 1998. [EUI64] IEEE, "Guidelines for 64-bit Global Identifier (EUI-64) Registration Authority", http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/tutorials/EUI64.html, March 1997. [ICMPv6] Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2463, December 1998. Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 12] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 [IPV4] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", RFC 791. [IPV6] Deering, S., and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460. [MECH] Gilligan, R., and E. Nordmark, "Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers", RFC 2893, August 2000. [NAT] Egevang, K., and P. Francis, "The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)", RFC 1631, May 1994. [PRIVATE] Rekhter, Y., Moskowitz, B., Karrenberg, D., de Groot, G., and E. Lear, "Address Allocation for Private Internets", RFC 1918, February 1996. [SIP] Handley, M., Schulzrinne, H., Schooler, E., and J. Rosenberg, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 2543, March 1999. Informative References [6OVER4] Carpenter, B. and C. Jung, "Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels", RFC 2529. [6TO4] Carpenter, B., and K. Moore, "Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds", RFC 3056, February 2001. [IANA] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, USC/Information Sciences Institute, October 1994. [PRIVACY] Narten, T., R. Draves, "Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6", RFC 3041, January 2001. [RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Implementation and Specification", RFC 1035, November 1987. [RFC2219] Hamilton, M., and R. Wright, "Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services", RFC 2219 (BCP), October 1997. Authors Addresses Fred L. Templin SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Phone: (650)-859-3144 Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 13] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 Email: templin@erg.sri.com Tim Gleeson Cisco Systems K.K. Shinjuku Mitsu Building 2-1-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 163-0409, JAPAN email: tgleeson@cisco.com Mohit Talwar Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Phone: +1 425 705 3131 EMail: mohitt@microsoft.com Dave Thaler Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Phone: +1 425 703 8835 EMail: dthaler@microsoft.com APPENDIX A: Major Changes changes from version 03 to version 04: - Re-wrote section on Potential Router List initialization to reference existing precedence in other documents - several minor wording changes based on feedback from the community changes from version 02 to version 03: - Added contributing co-authors - RSs are now sent to unicast addresses rather than all-routers-multicast - Brought draft into better alignment with other IPv6 standards-track documents - Added applicability statement changes from version 01 to version 02: Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 14] INTERNET-DRAFT ISATAP 18 April 2002 - Cleaned up text and tightened up terminology. Changed "IPv6 destination address" to "IPv6 next-hop address" under "sending rules". Changed definition of ISATAP prefix to include link and site-local. Changed language in sections 4 and 5 changes from version 00 to version 01: - Revised draft to require different /64 prefixs for ISATAP addresses and native IPv6 addresses. Thus, a node's ISATAP interface is assigned a /64 prefix that is distinct from the prefixes assigned to any other interfaces attached to the node - be they physical or logical interfaces. This approach eliminates ISATAP-specific sending rules presented in earlier draft versions. - Changed sense of 'u/l' bit in the ISATAP address interface identifier to indicate "local scope", since ISATAP interface identifiers are unique only within the scope of the ISATAP prefix. (See section 4.) changes from personal draft to version 00: - Title change to provide higher-level description of field of use addressed by this draft. Removed other extraneous text. - Major new section on automatic discovery of off-link IPv6 routers when IPv6-IPv4 compatibility addresses are used. Intellectual Property The IETF has been notified of intellectual property rights claimed in regard to some or all of the specification contained in this document. For more information consult the online list of claimed rights. Templin, et. al. Expires 18 October 2002 [Page 15]