Subject: [v6ops] Protocol Action: 'Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-07.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:59:22 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts'
  (draft-ietf-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-07.txt) as a Proposed Standard

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

The IESG contact persons are Ron Bonica and Dan Romascanu.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-happy-eyeballs/

Technical Summary 

   When the IPv4 server and path is working but the IPv6 server or IPv6
   path is down, a dual-stack client application experiences significant
   connection delay compared to an IPv4-only client.  This is
   undesirable because it causes the dual-stack client to have a worse
   user experience.  This document specifies requirements for algorithms
   that reduce this delay, and provides an example algorithm.
 
Working Group Summary 

    v6ops considered this carefully, and tested various possible implementations of the solution.

Document Quality 

   The document appears to be of high quality per the numerous reviews received.

Personnel

   Joel Jaegli is shepherd