Subject: Protocol Action: 'IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-6man-rdnss-rfc6106bis-15.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:51:14 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration'
  (draft-ietf-6man-rdnss-rfc6106bis-15.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Suresh Krishnan and Terry Manderson.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rdnss-rfc6106bis/

Technical Summary

   This document specifies IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) options
   (called DNS RA options) to allow IPv6 routers to advertise a list of
   DNS recursive server addresses and a DNS Search List to IPv6 hosts.
   It obsoletes RFC 6106 and allows a higher default value of
   the lifetime of the DNS RA options to avoid the frequent expiry of
   the options on links with a relatively high rate of packet loss.

Working Group Summary

The working group preferred to work on a bis version to replace RFC 6106, instead of producing an RFC
to update RFC 6106.

Document Quality

There are several implementations of RFC6106 and these implementations will most likely be updated pretty quickly after this document is published

Personnel

Fernando Gont is the document shepherd. Suresh Krishnan is the responsible AD