The global deployment of IPv6 is underway, creating an IPv4/IPv6
  Internet consisting of IPv4-only, IPv6-only and IPv4/IPv6 networks and
  nodes. This deployment must be properly handled to avoid the division
  of the Internet into separate IPv4 and IPv6 networks while ensuring
  addressing and connectivity for all IPv4 and IPv6 nodes.
  
  The IPv6 Operations Working Group (v6ops) develops guidelines for the
  operation of a shared IPv4/IPv6 Internet and provides operational
  guidance on how to deploy IPv6 into existing IPv4-only networks,
  as well as into new network installations.
  
  The main focus of the v6ops WG is to look at the immediate
  deployment issues; more advanced stages of deployment and transition
  are a lower priority.
  
  The goals of the v6ops working group are:
  
  1. Solicit input from network operators and users to identify
  operational issues with the IPv4/IPv6 Internet, and
  determine solutions or workarounds to those issues. These issues
  will be documented in Informational or BCP RFCs, or in
  Internet-Drafts.
  
  This work should primarily be conducted by those areas and WGs
  which are responsible and best fit to analyze these problems, but
  v6ops may also cooperate in focusing such work.
  
  2. Publish Informational or BCP RFCs that identify potential security
  risks in the operation of shared IPv4/IPv6 networks, and document
  operational practices to eliminate or mitigate those risks.
  
  This work will be done in cooperation with the Security area and
  other relevant areas or working groups.
  
  3. As a particular instance of (1) and (2), provide feedback to
  the IPv6 WG regarding portions of the IPv6 specifications that
  cause, or are likely to cause, operational or security concerns,
  and work with the IPv6 WG to resolve those concerns. This feedback
  will be published in Internet-Drafts or RFCs.
  
  4. Publish Informational or BCP RFCs that identify and analyze 
  solutions
  for deploying IPv6 within common network environments, such as
  ISP Networks, Enterprise Networks, Unmanaged Networks (Home/Small
  Office), and Cellular Networks.
  
  These documents should serve as useful guides to network
  operators and users on possible ways how to deploy IPv6 within their
  existing IPv4 networks, as well as in new network installations.
  
  These documents should not be normative guides for IPv6 deployment,
  and the primary intent is not capture the needs for new solutions,
  but rather describe which approaches work and which do not.
  
  IPv6 operational and deployment issues with specific protocols or
  technologies (such as Applications, Transport Protocols, Routing
  Protocols, DNS or Sub-IP Protocols) are the primary responsibility of
  the groups or areas responsible for those protocols or technologies.
  However, the v6ops WG may provide input to those areas/groups, as
  needed, and cooperate with those areas/groups in reviewing solutions
  to IPv6 operational and deployment problems.
  
  Future work items within this scope will be adopted by the WG only if
  there is a substantial expression of interest from the community and
  if the work clearly does not fit elsewhere in the IETF.
  
  There must be a continuous expression of interest for the WG to work
  on a particular work item. If there is no longer sufficient interest
  in the WG in a work item, the item may be removed from the list of WG
  items.
  
  Specifying any protocols or transition mechanisms is out of scope of
  the WG.
  



Milestones

Done     - Publish Cellular Deployment Scenarios as a WG I-D

Done     - Publish Unmanaged Network Deployment Scenarios as a WG I-D

Done     - Publish Survey of IPv4 Addresses in IETF Standards as WG I-D

Done     - Publish Cellular Deployment Solutions as a WG I-D

Done     - Publish Unmanaged Network Deployment Solutions as a WG I-D

Done     - Submit Cellular Deployment Scenarios to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit Unmanaged Network Deployment Scenarios to IESG for Info

Done     - Publish Enterprise Deployment Scenarios as a WG I-D

Done     - Submit Survey of IPv4 Addresses in IETF Standards to IESG for Info

Done     - Publish ISP Deployment & Solutions as a WG I-D

Done     - Submit Cellular Deployment Solutions to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit Transition Mechanisms to IESG for PS

Done     - Submit IPv6 Neighbor Discovery On-Link Assumption to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit Unmanaged Network Deployment Solutions to IESG for BCP

Done     - Submit Dual Stack IPv6 on by Default to IESG for Informational

Done     - Submit ISP Deployment Scenarios & Solutions to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition to IESG for Informational

Done     - Submit 6to4 Security Analysis to IESG for Informational

Done     - Submit Enterprise Deployment Scenarios to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit Renumbering Procedures to IESG for Info

Done     - Adopt IPv6 Network Architecture Protection as WG item

Done     - Adopt document describing how to use IPsec with draft-ietf-v6ops-mech-v2 as WG
           item

Done     - Adopt IPv6 Security Overview as WG item

Done     - Ensure draft-ietf-v6ops-v6onbydefault keeps going forward for RFC publication

Done     - Submit IPv6 deployment using VLANs to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit document describing issues with NAT-PT to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit document on IPsec w/ draft-ietf-v6ops-mech-v2 to IESG for Info

Done     - Adopt IPv6 deployment using VLANs to IESG for Info

Done     - Adopt ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access Networks as WG item

Done     - Submit IPv6 Network Architecture Protection to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit Enterprise Deployment Analysis to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit IPv6 Security Overview to IESG for Info

Done     - Submit ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access Networks to IESG for
           Info