Free from Using Zone Identifier for IPv6 Link-Local Address
draft-kitamura-ipv6-zoneid-free-03
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| Authors | Hiroshi Kitamura , Shingo Ata , Masayuki Murata | ||
| Last updated | 2015-01-02 (Latest revision 2014-07-01) | ||
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Abstract
This document describes "Zone-ID Free" functions that make end users free from using zone identifiers (Zone-ID) 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-IDs. 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-IDs for this purpose. From another viewpoint, the usage of IPv6 link-local addresses accompanied with Zone-IDs is quite different from the traditional usage of global addresses. Therefore many problems related with Zone-ID are caused and new specifications are required to fix these problems. This document explores and describes how "Zone-ID Free" functions work and how end users are released from using Zone-IDs when they deal with IPv6 link-local addresses. The "Zone-ID Free" functions are upper compatible with the current usages of dealing with IPv6 link-local addresses and harmless to the existing communications. In order to obtain appropriate Zone-ID information, a new technology "Zone-ID Learning" that issues multiple probes is introduced.
Authors
Hiroshi Kitamura
Shingo Ata
Masayuki Murata
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