Fixing the C-Flag in Extended Address Registration Option (EARO)
draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928-05

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Fixing the C-Flag in Extended Address Registration Option (EARO)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928-05.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Fixing the C-Flag in Extended Address Registration Option (EARO)'
  (draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928-05.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the IPv6 over Networks of
Resource-constrained Nodes Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Erik Kline and Éric Vyncke.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document updates RFC 8928, “Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery
   for Low-Power and Lossy Networks” (AP-ND), by updating the bit
   position for the C-flag in the Extended Address Registration Option
   (EARO) and registering it with IANA.

Working Group Summary

There was no controversy. This document has followed a quicker process than
usual, due to its nature of being a short document fixing a mistake in RFC 8928
with the position of one bit (the C-flag) in EARO, which in addition was not
registered with IANA.

The draft received comments during adoption and WGLC, including the shepherd's
comments. The last version of the draft addresses all the comments.

Document Quality

At this moment, neither the shepherd nor the authors are aware of existing
implementations or plans to implement the draft. Nevertheless, the draft is
required to fix a mistake in RFC 8928, as described earlier.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Carles Gomez. The Responsible
   Area Director is Éric Vyncke.

IANA Note

The only purpose of this document (based on discussion with IANA) is to address 3 changes in "IANA Registry for the Address Registration Option Flags".

RFC Editor Note

RFC Editor Note

Please process draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928 and draft-ietf-6lo-prefix-registration together (they should actually be in a cluster anyway) and allocate two sequential RFC number if possible. The lower RFC number should be for draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928 and the higher for draft-ietf-6lo-prefix-registration.

Thanks

-éric