Mobility for IPv4 (mip4)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2008-02-14

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Henrik Levkowetz  <henrik@levkowetz.com>
     Pete McCann  <mccap@petoni.org>

 Internet Area Director(s):
     Jari Arkko  <jari.arkko@piuha.net>
     Mark Townsley  <townsley@cisco.com>

 Internet Area Advisor:
     Jari Arkko  <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

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Description of Working Group:

IP mobility support for IPv4 nodes (hosts and routers) is specified in
RFC3344. RFC 3344 mobility allows a node to continue using 
its "permanent" home address as it moves around the Internet. The 
Mobile IP protocols support transparency above the IP layer, including 
maintenance of active TCP connections and UDP port bindings.Besides 
the basic Mobile IPv4 (MIPv4) protocols, several other drafts deal 
with concerns such as optimization, security, extensions, AAA support, 
and deployment issues.

MIPv4 is currently being deployed on a wide basis (e.g., in cdma2000
networks). The scope of the deployment is on a fairly large scale and
accordingly, the MIP4 WG will focus on deployment issues and on 
addressing known deficiencies and shortcomings in the protocol that 
have come up as a result of deployment experience. Specifically, the 
working group will complete the work items to facilitate interactions 
with AAA environments, interactions with enterprise environments when 
MIPv4 is used therein, and updating existing protocol specifications 
in accordance with deployment needs and advancing those protocols that 
are on the standards track.

Work expected to be done by the MIP4 WG as proposed by this charter is 
as follows:

1. MIPv4 has been a proposed standard for several years. It has been
adopted by other standard development organizations and has been
deployed commercially. One of the next steps for the WG is to advance
the protocol to draft standard status. As part of advancing base
Mobile IP specs to DS, the MIPv4 NAI RFC (2794) will be revised
to reflect implementation experience

2. Work items that are pending from the previous Mobile IP WG, which
will be completed by the MIP4 WG, are:

- completion of the MIB for the revised base Mobile IP
specification (2006bis)

- regional registration draft.

3. The MIP4 WG will also complete the work on MIPv4 interactions
in VPN scenarios. This work will involve identifying the requirements
and a solution development for MIPv4 operation in the presence
of IPsec VPNs. 

4. Additionally, a proposal has been made for how MOBIKE could work
together with MIPv4. This proposal does not describe any new protocol,
but formulates a best current practice for deploying MOBIKE together
with MIPv4. The working group will adopt and complete this document.

5. Some issues have been raised with respect to RFC3519. These will be
identified and addressed as appropriate, through errata, revision
of RFC 3519, and/or supplemental documents as needed.

6. It has been proposed that the FMIP protocol, which has been
standardised for MIPv6 in the MIPSHOP working group, should also be
published as an experimental protocol for MIPv4. A draft for this
exists. The working group will take up and carry this work forward
to publication

7. An extension to carry generic strings in the Registration Reply
message has been proposed. The purpose is to supply supplemental
human-readable information intended to the MN user. The working
group will complete the specification and applicability statement of
such an extension.

8. RADIUS attributes for MIP4. A set of RADIUS attributes has
been proposed for MIPv4. 

The working group will first produce a requirements specification,
describing how the work differs from the requirements in RFC 2977
and the functionality provided by RFC 4004 (the MIPv4 Diameter App).
The reason why this first step is required is that RFC 3127 pretty
clearly shows that full 2977 functionality can't be provided by even
a considerably extended RADIUS, so we need to match the requirements
to what can be done within RADIUS.

Provided the requirements work finds approval with ADs and radext,
the workgroup will complete the specification of MIPv4 RADIUS
attributes, solicit feedback from the Radius Extensions WG, adjust,
and submit this for publication. 

9. MIPv4 Extension for Configuration Options. 

Several drafts have proposed extensions to help improve configuration 
of MIPv4 clients. The latest proposal is for a general configuration
option extension which could carry information such as e.g., DNS 
address and DHCP server address. The working group will take on 
and complete one proposal for a configuration option extension.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         AAA Keys for MIPv4 to IESG 

   Done         MIPv4 VPN interaction problem statement to IESG 

   Done         Low latency handover to experimental 

   Done         Experimental MIPv4 message and extensions draft to IESG 

   Done         Dynamic Home Agent assignment protocol solution to IESG 

   Done         Revised MIPv4 Challenge/Response (3012bis) to IESG 

   Done         Regional registration document to IESG 

   Done         Generic Strings for MIPv4 (Proposed Std.) to the IESG 

   Done         MIPv4 Mobike interaction (BCP) to the IESG 

   Done         MIPv4 RADIUS Extensions Requirements to the IESG 

   Done         MIPv4 Extension for Config. Options (Proposed Std.) to the IESG 

   Done         FMIPv4 (Experimental) to the IESG 

   Done         MIPv4 VPN interaction (BCP) to the IESG 

   Done         Base MIPv4 Mobile Network Support (Draft Std.) to IESG 

   Feb 2008       Revised MIPv4 specification to IESG for Draft Std. 

   Mar 2008       Dual-stack MIPv4 (Draft Std.) to IESG 

   Mar 2008       Revised MIB for MIPv4 (Proposed Std.) to IESG 

   May 2008       RADIUS Extensions for MIPv4 to the RADEXT WG for comment 

   May 2008       Notification Mechanism (Draft Std.) to IESG 

   Jun 2008       RADIUS Extensions for MIPv4 (Proposed Std.) to the IESG 

   Jul 2008       Revised rfc2794bis (NAI extension) (Draft Std.) to the IESG 

   Aug 2008       MIPv4 Mobile Network Support for FAs (Draft Std.) to IESG 

   Aug 2008       MIPv4 Mobile Network Support Dynamic Address Assignment (Draft 
                Std.) to IESG 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Sep 2003 Sep 2007   <draft-ietf-mip4-rfc2006bis-04.txt>
                The Definitions of Managed Objects for IP Mobility Support 
                using SMIv2, revised 

Oct 2004 Dec 2007   <draft-ietf-mip4-vpn-problem-solution-04.txt>
                Mobile IPv4 Traversal Across IPsec-based VPN Gateways 

Jan 2006 Mar 2007   <draft-ietf-mip4-mobike-connectivity-03.txt>
                Secure Connectivity and Mobility using Mobile IPv4 and MOBIKE 

Aug 2006 Feb 2008   <draft-ietf-mip4-dsmipv4-06.txt>
                Dual Stack Mobile IPv4 

Mar 2007 Jan 2008   <draft-ietf-mip4-nemo-v4-base-08.txt>
                Network Mobility (NEMO) Extensions for Mobile IPv4 

Mar 2007 Feb 2008   <draft-ietf-mip4-generic-notification-message-04.txt>
                Generic Notification Message for Mobile IPv4 

Mar 2007 Nov 2007   <draft-ietf-mip4-nemov4-dynamic-01.txt>
                Dynamic Prefix Allocation for NEMOv4 

Mar 2007 Feb 2008   <draft-ietf-mip4-nemov4-fa-02.txt>
                FA extensions to NEMOv4 Base 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC3846Standard  Jul 2004    Mobile IPv4 Extension for AAA Network Access Identifiers 

RFC3957Standard  Mar 2005    Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) 
                       Registration Keys for Mobile IPv4 

RFC4064Standard  May 2005    Experimental Message, Extension and Error Codes for 
                       Mobile IPv4 

RFC4093 I    Aug 2005    Problem Statement: Mobile IPv4 Traversal of Virtual 
                       Private Network (VPN) Gateways 

RFC4433 PS   Mar 2006    Mobile IPv4 Dynamic Home Agent Assignment 

RFC4636 PS   Oct 2006    Foreign Agent Error Extension for Mobile IPv4 

RFC4721 PS   Jan 2007    Mobile IPv4 Challenge/Response Extensions (Revised) 

RFC4857 E    Jun 2007    Mobile IPv4 Regional Registration 

RFC4917 PS   Jun 2007    Mobile IPv4 Message String Extension 

RFC4881 E    Jun 2007    Low-Latency Handoffs in Mobile IPv4 

RFC5030 I    Oct 2007    Mobile IPv4 RADIUS requirements 

RFC4988 E    Oct 2007    Mobile IPv4 Fast Handovers