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Title : Free from Using Zone Identifier for IPv6 Link-Local
Address
Author(s) : Hiroshi Kitamura
Shingo Ata
Masayuki Murata
Filename : draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-00.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 2013-07-10
Abstract:
This document describes how end users can become free from using
zone identifiers for IPv6 link-local addresses.
When users deal with IPv6 link-local addresses, it is thought that
it is mandatory thing to specify accompanied zone identifiers. For
end users, however, it is troublesome and nuisance thing to do it.
Because it is very hard for normal end users to find appropriate
zone identifiers for this purpose.
From another viewpoint, the usage of IPv6 link-local addresses
accompanied with zone identifiers is quite different from the usage
of traditional global addresses, many problems are caused and new
specifications are required to fix these problems.
This document explores and describes a new mechanism that makes end
users free from using zone identifiers for IPv6 link-local
addresses. In order to achieve the mechanism, a new notion table
that is called "Link-Local Route Cache" is introduced.
This method is upper compatible with the current mechanism and
harmless to the existing communications. By adding small
improvement to neighbor discovery implementation, "Link-Local Route
Cache" is easily implemented.
With this method, end users will be released from using nuisance
zone identifiers for IPv6 link-local addresses.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-00
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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