What is the business rationale for this exception? Is there a specific customer that needs this RFE?

JIO JIO JIO, IPv6 support for health check of qdrouterd service.

Are there any security concerns?

Nope.

What other functions, teams, or DFGs are impacted by this feature?

None.

What is the estimated time to have the upstream work complete and approved?

No upstream work, downstream only.

What is the time and resources required to test this issue? On what date will automated tests be written and ready to run and report results in Polarion?

This is a corner case, JIO has a SE that requires them to test IPv6 only with STF on their own.

Is there potential doc impact?

No.

Are there new packages needed that are not packaged in OSP or RHEL? Does it require newer versions of existing dependencies (dependency bumps)?

Nope.

No new packages or dependencies.
What is the support level?

Fully supported

How invasive is the code? From very invasive, a core change to very isolated, no risk to other components? Example: Minimal impact (only affects the puppet-cinder module).

Only regular expression change. One line.

What is the impact to deployment/updates/upgrades/FFU; what are the test plans in these areas?