IPv6 Guidance for Internet Content and Application Service Providers
draft-ietf-v6ops-icp-guidance-04
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Document | Type | Active Internet-Draft (v6ops WG) | |
Last updated | 2013-01-10 (latest revision 2012-09-17) | ||
Replaces | draft-carpenter-v6ops-icp-guidance | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Intended RFC status | Informational | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Joel Jaeggli | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2012-10-29) | ||
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Send notices to | v6ops-chairs@tools.ietf.org, draft-ietf-v6ops-icp-guidance@tools.ietf.org |
V6OPS B. Carpenter Internet-Draft Univ. of Auckland Intended status: Informational S. Jiang Expires: March 21, 2013 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd September 17, 2012 IPv6 Guidance for Internet Content and Application Service Providers draft-ietf-v6ops-icp-guidance-04 Abstract This document provides guidance and suggestions for Internet Content Providers and Application Service Providers who wish to offer their service to both IPv6 and IPv4 customers. Many of the points will also apply to hosting providers, or to any enterprise network preparing for IPv6 users. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 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." This Internet-Draft will expire on March 21, 2013. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as Carpenter & Jiang Expires March 21, 2013 [Page 1] Internet-Draft IPv6 ICP and ASP Guidance September 2012 described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. General Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Education and Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Arranging IPv6 Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. IPv6 Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.1. Address and subnet assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2. Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.3. DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6. Load Balancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7. Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 8. Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8.1. Network Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8.2. Application Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8.3. Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.4. Geolocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9. Coping with Transition Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10. Content Delivery Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 11. Business Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 12. Possible Complexities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 13. Operations and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 14. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 16. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 17. Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove] . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 18. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 18.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 18.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Carpenter & Jiang Expires March 21, 2013 [Page 2] Internet-Draft IPv6 ICP and ASP Guidance September 2012 1. Introduction The deployment of IPv6 [RFC2460] is now in progress, and users without direct IPv4 access are likely to appear in increasing numbers in the coming years. Any provider of content or application services over the Internet will need to arrange for IPv6 access or else risk losing large numbers of potential users. For users who already have dual stack connectivity, direct IPv6 access might provide moreShow full document text