Mobility for IPv6 (mip6) ------------------------ Charter Last Modified: 2007-06-15 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Basavaraj Patil Gopal Dommety Internet Area Director(s): Jari Arkko Mark Townsley Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko Mailing Lists: General Discussion:mip6@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mip6 Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/mip6/index.html Description of Working Group: Mobile IPv6 (MIP6) specifies routing support which permits an IPv6 host to continue using its home address as it moves around the Internet, enabling continuity of sessions. Mobile IPv6 supports transparency above the IP layer, including maintenance of active transport level sessions. The base specifications for Mobile IPv6 consist of: o RFC 3775 o RFC 3776 The primary goal of the MIP6 working group will be to enhance base IPv6 mobility by continuing work on developments that are required for wide-scale deployments. Additionally the working group will ensure that any issues identified by implementation and interoperability experience are addressed, and that the base specifications are maintained. The group will also produce informational documentation, such as design rationale documents or description of specific issues within the protocol. Deployment considerations call for work to reduce per-mobile node configuration and enrollment effort, solutions to enable dual-stack operation, mechanisms to support high-availabity home agents, and ways to employ Mobile IPv6 in the presence of firewalls. Work items related to base specification maintenance include: - Create and maintain an issue list that is generated on the basis of implementation and interoperability experience. Address specific issues with specific updates or revisions of the base specification. One specific area of concern that should be analyzed and addressed relates to multilink subnets. This work item relates only to corrections and clarifications. The working group shall not revisit design decisions or change the protocol. - Update RFC 3776 to specify the usage of IKEv2 for the establishment of the IPsec SA between the MN and HA. This work also provides a way for a mobile node to change its home address or employ multiple home addresses as needed. - Update the IANA considerations of RFC 3775 to allow extensions for experimental purposes as well passing of optional vendor-specific information. Work items related to large scale deployment include: - Bootstrapping Mobile IPv6: A bootstrapping mechanism is intended to be used when the device is turned on the very first time and activates Mobile IPv6, or periodically such as when powering on. The WG should investigate and define the scope before solving the problem. Work on the problem statement and the solutions needed for various deployment scenarios. Work with other WGs such as DHC for defining the options needed for bootstrapping. - Capture the AAA requirements needed for bootstrapping and deployment, and work with the Radext and DiME WGs on the solutions. - A Solution for MIP6 session continuity for dual stack hosts which attach to IPv4 access networks. Additionally provide a mechanism for carrying IPv4 packets via the Home agent for MIP6 capable dual-stack hosts. This work will be done in collaboration with the NEMO WG. - A protocol based solution for enhancing the reliability of home agents and a method to force a host to switch home agents. - A mechanism to force an MN to switch the HA that is currently serving it. This is required in deployments where the HA may need to be taken offline for maintenance. - Work on solutions to deal with firewalls and the problems that firewalls cause as identified in RFC 4487. Work items related to informational documentation include: - Produce a problem statement relating to location privacy and the use of Mobile IPv6. Work with the IRTF MOBOPTS RG on developing the solution. - Produce a design rationale that documents the historical thinking behind the introduction of an alternative security mechanism, the Authentication Protocol (RFC 4285). It should be noted that some of the features that are directly related to Mobile IPv6 are being worked on in the MONAMI6, MIPSHOP, and NEMO working groups. The specific extensions from these groups are out of scope for the MIP6 working group. In particular, all optimizations are out of scope. However, MIP6 may assist these groups when they use features listed above and have requirements on them. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit I-D 'Issues with firewall Problem statement' to IESG Done Submit I-D 'MIPv6 MIB' to IESG Done Submit I-D 'Extensions to Socket Advanced API for MIPv6' to IESG Done Submit I-D 'Alternate Route Optimization (Pre-config Key) scheme' to IESG Done Submit Bootstrapping problem statement to IESG Done Submit I-D 'Authentication Option for MIPv6' to IESG Done Submit I-D 'Identification Option for MIPv6' to IESG Done Submit I-D 'MIPv6 operation with IKEV2 and the revised IPsec Architecture to IESG Done Submit Problem statement and Solution to Mobile IPv6 transition between v4/v6 networks to IESG Done Submit I-D 'Mobility management for Dual stack mobile nodes: A Problem Statement' to IESG for publication as Informational. Done Submit I-D 'Address Location Privacy and Mobile IPv6 Problem Statement' to IESG for publication as Informational. Done Submit I-D 'Bootstrapping solution for split Scenario' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Apr 2007 Submit I-D 'Motivation for Authentication I-D' to IESG for publication as Informational. Done Submit I-D 'Bootstrapping solution for Integrated Scenario' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Jul 2007 Submit I-D 'DHCP Options for Home Information Discovery in MIPv6' for publication as a proposed standard. Jul 2007 Submit I-D 'Mobility Header Home Agent Switch Message' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Aug 2007 Submit I-D 'Goals for AAA HA Interface' to IESG for publication as Informational. Sep 2007 Submit I-D 'Home agent reliability' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Sep 2007 Submit I-D 'Mobile IPv6 Dual-Stack Operation' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Oct 2007 Submit I-D 'Mobile IPv6 Vendor Specific Option' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard Dec 2007 Submit I-D 'Mobile IPv6 Experimental Allocations' to IESG for publication as a Proposed Standard. Dec 2007 Submit the I-D 'RADIUS Mobile IPv6 Support' to IESG for publication as a proposed standard. Feb 2008 Submit I-D 'Mobile IPv6 Operation with Firewalls' to IESG for publication as Informational. Feb 2008 Submit I-D(s) related to specific updates and corrections of RFC 3775 to IESG for publication as Proposed Standard. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Jan 2005 Aug 2007 Using IPsec between Mobile and Correspondent IPv6 Nodes Sep 2005 Aug 2007 Why Authentication Data suboption is needed for MIP6 Oct 2005 Jul 2007 Mobile IPv6 support for dual stack Hosts and Routers (DSMIPv6) Oct 2005 Jul 2007 MIP6-bootstrapping for the Integrated Scenario Jun 2006 Oct 2007 Mobility Header Home Agent Switch Message Jun 2006 Jul 2007 Home Agent Reliability Protocol Aug 2006 Nov 2007 DHCP Option for Home Information Discovery in MIPv6 Dec 2006 Oct 2007 Mobile IPv6 Experimental Messages Dec 2006 Oct 2007 Mobile IPv6 Vendor Specific Option Mar 2007 Oct 2007 Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6 Oct 2007 Oct 2007 Generic Notification Message for Mobile IPv6 Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC3776Standard Jun 2004 Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents RFC3775Standard Jun 2004 Mobility Support in IPv6 RFC4283Standard Dec 2005 Mobile Node Identifier Option for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) RFC4225 I Dec 2005 Mobile IP version 6 Route Optimization Security Design Background RFC4285 I Jan 2006 Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6 RFC4295 PS Apr 2006 Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base RFC4487 I May 2006 Mobile IPv6 and Firewalls: Problem Statement RFC4449 PS Jun 2006 Securing Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization Using a Static Shared Key RFC4584 I Jul 2006 Extension to Sockets API for Mobile IPv6 RFC4640 I Sep 2006 Problem Statement for bootstrapping Mobile IPv6 RFC4877 PS Apr 2007 Mobile IPv6 Operation with IKEv2 and the revised IPsec Architecture RFC4882 I May 2007 IP Address Location Privacy and Mobile IPv6: Problem Statement RFC4977 I Aug 2007 Problem Statement: Dual Stack Mobility RFC5026 PS Oct 2007 Mobile IPv6 bootstrapping in split scenario