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<reference anchor="I-D.cui-softwire-va-based-transition" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cui-softwire-va-based-transition-00">
   <front>
      <title>VA-Based IPv6 Transition</title>
      <author initials="Y." surname="Cui" fullname="Yong Cui">
         <organization>Tsinghua University</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="S." surname="Wang" fullname="Shengling Wang">
         <organization>Tsinghua University</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="M." surname="Xu" fullname="Mingwei Xu">
         <organization>Tsinghua University</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="J." surname="Wu" fullname="Jianping Wu">
         <organization>Tsinghua University</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="X." surname="Li" fullname="Xing Li">
         <organization>Tsinghua University</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="May" day="22" year="2009" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>With the increasing deployment of IPv6 networks, IPv6 transition has
become one of the key problems in developing IPv6 networks.  Among
various transition scenarios, one is common where connectivity
between IPv4 networks is desired across IPv6-only backbone network.
In such case, ISP operating the IPv6 backbone will accommodate
connectivity and offer transit services for attached IPv4 networks.
Softwire WG defined softwire mesh mechanism for both of the IPv4-
over-IPv6 scenario and the opposite scenario of IPv6-over-IPv4.
Softwire mesh uses automatic softwire tunnels employing multi-
protocol BGP extensions for distributing IPv4 routes, where BGP and
tunnuls should be configured or setup as a full-mesh architecture.
This draft, however, proposed an aggregated, centralized mechanism
similar to Virtual Aggregation (VA) mechanism, which can
significantly shrink the forwarding information base (FIB) size of
Address Family Border Routers (AFBRs), reduce the total amount of
routing activity, and provide the IPv6 ISP with an easy way to
manage the transit service.
	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-cui-softwire-va-based-transition-00" />
   
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