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 Communicating Proxy Configurations in Provisioning Domains
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-proxy-config-14.txt
 Date: 19/05/2026
 Authors: Tommy Pauly, Dragana Damjanovic, Yaroslav Rosomakho
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
This document defines a mechanism for accessing provisioning domain information associated with a proxy, such as other proxy URIs that support different protocols and information about which destinations are accessible using a proxy. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/tfpauly/privacy-proxy.
 ICMP Message Extension for Originating Node Identification
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid-05.txt
 Date: 07/09/2026
 Authors: Bill Fenner, Reji Thomas
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
RFC5837 describes a mechanism for Extending ICMP for Interface and Next-Hop Identification, which allows providing additional information in an ICMP error that helps identify interfaces participating in the path. This is especially useful in environments where a given interface may not have a unique IP address to respond to, e.g., a traceroute. This document introduces a similar ICMP extension for Node Identification. It allows providing a unique IP address and/or a textual name for the node, in the case where each node may not have a unique IP address (e.g., a deployment in which all interfaces have IPv6 addresses and all next-hops are IPv6 next-hops, even for IPv4 routes).
 PROBE: A Utility for Probing Interfaces
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-rfc8335bis-06.txt
 Date: 12/09/2026
 Authors: Bill Fenner, Reji Thomas, Chris Lenart
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
This document specifies a network diagnostic tool called PROBE. PROBE is similar to PING in that it can be used to query the status of a probed interface, but it differs from PING in that it does not require bidirectional connectivity between the probing and probed interfaces. Instead, PROBE requires bidirectional connectivity between the probing interface and a proxy interface. The proxy interface can reside on the same node as the probed interface, or it can reside on a node to which the probed interface is directly connected. This document updates RFC 4884 and obsoletes RFC 8335.
 IPv4 routes with an IPv6 next hop
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-v4-via-v6-08.txt
 Date: 17/04/2026
 Authors: Juliusz Chroboczek, Warren Kumari, Toke Hoeiland-Joergensen
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
V4-via-v6 routing is a technique that uses IPv6 next-hop addresses for routing IPv4 packets, and thus makes it possible to route IPv4 packets across a network where some routers have not been assigned IPv4 addresses. This document describes v4-via-v6 routing, and defines related operational procedures, notably the origination of ICMPv4 packets by nodes that might not have an IPv4 address.
 The Multicast Application Port
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-multicast-application-port-08.txt
 Date: 19/07/2026
 Authors: Nathan Karstens, Stuart Cheshire, Mike McBride
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
This document discusses the drawbacks of the current practice of assigning a UDP port to each multicast application. Such assignments are redundant because the multicast address already uniquely identifies the data. The document assigns a UDP port specifically for use with multicast applications and lists requirements for using this port. This approach provides immediate compatibility with existing protocol stacks, while also requiring improvements to make the port easier to use.
 A YANG Data Model for ARP Extensions
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-arp-yang-model-01.txt
 Date: 13/04/2026
 Authors: Feng Zheng, Bo Wu, Robert Wilton, Fan Zhang, Yongqing Zhu, Xiaojian Ding
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
This document defines a YANG data model for the management of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). It extends the basic ARP functionality contained in the ietf-ip YANG data model, defined in RFC 8344, to provide management of optional ARP features and statistics.
 IPv6-Resolved IPv4 Gateway
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-resolved-gateway-00.txt
 Date: 27/08/2026
 Authors: Remco van Mook
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
This document specifies host behavior enabling IPv4 communication for dual-stack hosts on IPv6-only segments, without subnets, ARP, tunneling, or translation. Hosts that receive 192.0.0.11/32 as their IPv4 default gateway address resolve the next-hop link-layer address from the IPv6 neighbor cache rather than via ARP. IPv4 packets are forwarded natively, end-to-end. The mechanism is incrementally deployable alongside unmodified hosts with no changes to DHCPv4 infrastructure. This document requests the allocation of 192.0.0.11/32 in the IANA IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry to support this mechanism.
 Proposal for Updates to Guidance on Packet Reordering
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-reordering-00.txt
 Date: 27/08/2026
 Authors: Greg White, Ingemar Johansson, Dibakar Das, Chris Box
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
Several link technology standards mandate that equipment guarantee in-order delivery of layer 2 frames, apparently due to a belief that this is required by higher layer protocols. To meet this requirement they implement a "resequencing" operation to restore the original packet order. This can introduce delays that result in net degradation of performance. Modern TCP and QUIC implementations support features that significantly improve their tolerance to out- of-order delivery. This draft is intended to provide new information for layer 2 technology standards regarding the need to assure in- order delivery to support IETF protocols.
 DHCP Explicit Rate Signaling
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-dhcp-rate-signaling-00.txt
 Date: 27/08/2026
 Authors: Christian Giese, Richard Patterson
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
This document defines new Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) options for both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 to explicitly signal available upstream and downstream data rates. In many broadband access networks, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and intermediate nodes lack visibility into the subscriber's provisioned service tier. By communicating these capacities natively via DHCP, clients, relay agents, and snooping switches can dynamically configure localized traffic shaping and queuing. This explicit signaling improves overall network performance by reducing the reliance on indiscriminate packet dropping and policing at the service edge. Additionally, it provides the necessary capacity awareness to enable effective Active Queue Management (AQM) and the Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) architecture.
 Updates to Legacy IANA Registries
 
 draft-ietf-intarea-legacy-registries-00.txt
 Date: 11/09/2026
 Authors: Eric Vyncke
 Working Group: Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
IANA maintains several registries that were created for IPv4. As the IPv4 core specification is no longer being extended and as some other registries do not have a defined IANA registration procedure, these registries need to be updated to indicate a registration procedure or to reflect the current practice that defining such extensions is not recommended.


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Internet Area Working Group (intarea)

WG Name Internet Area Working Group
Acronym intarea
Area Internet Area (int)
State Active
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Charter for Working Group

The Internet Area Working Group (INTAREA WG) acts primarily as a forum
for discussing far-ranging topics that affect the entire area. Such
topics include, for instance, address space issues, basic IP layer
functionality, and architectural questions. The group also serves as a
forum to distribute information about ongoing activities in the area,
create a shared understanding of the challenges and goals for the area,
and to enable coordination.

The Internet Area receives occasional proposals for the development and
publication of RFCs that are not in scope of an existing working group
and do not justify the formation of a new working group. The INTAREA WG
has a secondary role to serve as the forum for developing such work
items in the IETF. The working group milestones are updated as needed
to reflect the current work items and their associated milestones.

New work must satisfy the following conditions:

(1) WG consensus on the relevance for the Internet at large.

(2) WG consensus on the suitability and projected quality of the
proposed work item.

(3) A core group of WG participants with sufficient energy and
expertise to advance the work item according to the proposed
schedule.

(4) Commitment from the WG as a whole to provide sufficient
and timely review of the proposed work item.

(5) Agreement by the ADs, who, depending on the scope of the proposed
work item, may decide that an IESG review is needed first.