Tech Stuff - Ipv6

Version 6 of the IP Protocol. Defined in RFC 2460 (and updated by RFC5095 and RFC5722). Everything about IPv6 is BIG. An IPv4 address is 32 bits, an IPv6 address is 128 bits. This is about the number where each blade of grass on the planet could have its own IPv6 address.

IPv6 has been around since at least 1995 but the CIDR initiative of the mid-nineties pushed back any, then pressing, need for IPv6's increased address range. The can was effectively kicked down the road. In retrospect this was probably a Good Thing ™ since much of the recent (2010/2015) IPv6 work has been to reduce IPv6 address complexity, interworking and overall functionality.

IPv6 is big and complex in comparison with IPv4. This fact alone will keep users from implementation if they have any choice in the matter. Nevertheless, the internet is rapidly approaching the time - primarily due to IPv4 address depletion - when there is little choice but to move to IPv6. The transition will be accompanied by much yelling, screaming, gnashing of teeth and grim resignation. It is not helped by the constant roll-back and fiddling with the IPv6 specifications.

It is noted that RFC 6540 (published April 2012) now formally suggests that best practice protocol stacks should now include both IPv6 and IPv4. While IPv6 and IPv4 have been available, for many years, with mainstream OSs (Linux, BSD, Windows and others) and, due to its application in the mobile world, Android and other mobile centric OSs, most network boxes (DSL/cable modems) are still IPv4 only. High quality Open Source IPv6 stacks and this nudging from the IETF may change this. Then again, perhaps holding one's breath may not be a sensible strategy just yet since it will be many years before all that IPv4 NAT investment used by most ISPs will obsolete IPv4 functionality.

You need to be fairly comfortable with Hex stuff to handle IPv6 (quick overview of Hexadecimal, Binary and Decimal)

Contents

1. IPv6 Overview
2. IPv6 Address Notation
3. IPv6 Prefix or Slash Notation
4. IPv6 Address Types
5. IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
6. IPv6 End-User Address Format
7. IPv6 Address Calculator
8. IPv6 Configuration Options
9. IPv6 Stateless Address AutoConfiguration (SLAAC)
10. IPv6 Link-Local Address Format
11. EUI-64 Address formation for SLAAC and Link-Local
12. IPv6 Multicast Address Format
13. IPv6 - IPv4 Interworking
14. IPv6 over IPv4 Interworking (6to4)
15. IPv6 Frame Format
16. IPv6 Header Format
17. IPv6 Order of Headers
18. IPv6 Extension Headers
19. IPv6 Discovery
20. IPv6 ICMP
21. IPv6 ping6 command
22. IPv6 traceroute6 command
23. IPv6 RFCs

IPv6 Overview

First things first. Each PC - more properly each network interface - may have more than one IPv6 address - IPv6 is naturally multi-homed. Second, an IPv6 address has a scope, that is, it can be restricted to a single LAN or a private network or be globally unique. The following table defines the types of IPv6 addresses that can be supported and contrasts them with their closest IPv4 functional equivalent.

IPv6 Name	Scope/Description	IPv4 Equivalent	Notes
Link-Local	Local LAN only. Automatically assigned based on MAC. Cannot be routed outside local LAN.	No real equivalent. Assigned IPv4 over ARP'd MAC.	Scoped address concept new to IPv6. Multicast may also be scoped to link-local (RFC 4489). Format.
Site-Local	Optional. Local Site only. Cannot be routed over Internet. Assigned by user.	Private network address with multi-homed interface is closest equivalent.	Scoped address concept new to IPv6. Unlike the IPv4 private network address the IPv6 device can have, and most likely will have, Link-Local, Site-Local and a Global Unicast address. Site-Local while continuing to exist in the IPv6 specification is the subject of on-going work in the IETF and is currently not supported. The address block used for this purpose has been marked Reserved by IANA.
Global Unicast	Globally unique. Fully routable. Assigned by IANA/Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).	Global IP address.	IPv6 and IPv4 similar but IPv6 can have other scoped addresses. Format.
Multicast	One-to-many. Hierarchy of multicasting.	Similar to IPv4 Class D.	Significantly more powerful than IPv4 version. No broadcast in IPv6, replaced by multicast. Multicast may also be scoped to link-local (RFC 4489). Format.
Anycast	One-to-nearest. Uses Global Unicast Addresses. Routers only. Discovery uses.	Unique protocols in IPv4, for example, IGMP.	Addresses are indistinguishable froma normal unicast address. Anycast (router-to-router) is also used with IPv4 addresses, specifically with DNS root servers, though there may be other instances.
Loopback	Local interface scope.	Same as IPv4 127.0.0.1	Same function

IPv6 Address Notation

An IPv6 address consists of 128 bits - an IPv4 address consists of 32 bits - and is written as a series of 8 hexadecimal strings separated by colons. (Format defined by RFC 4291 and updated by RFC 5952) Examples:

# all the following refer to the same address
2001:0000:0234:C1AB:0000:00A0:AABC:003F
# leading zeros can be omitted
2001:0:234:C1AB:0:A0:AABC:3F
# not case sensitive - any mixture allowed
2001:0:0234:C1ab:0:A0:aabc:3F

One or more zeros entries can be omitted entirely but only once in an address. The user can choose the most efficient place to omit multiple zero entries. Examples:

# raw ipv6 address
2001:0000:0234:C1AB:0000:00A0:AABC:003F
# address with single 0 dropped
2001::0234:C1ab:0:A0:aabc:003F
# alternate version - address with single 0 dropped
2001:0:0234:C1ab::A0:aabc:003F
# the following is INVALID
2001::0234:C1ab::A0:aabc:003F

Multiple zeros can be omitted entirely but only once in an address. Examples:

# omitting multiple 0's in address
2001:0:0:0:0:0:0:3F
# can be written as
2001::3F
# lots of zeros (loopback address)
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
# can be written as
::1
# all zeros (unspecified a.k.a unassigned IP)
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0
# can be written as
::
# but this address
2001:0:0:1:0:0:0:3F
# cannot be reduced to this 
2001::1::3F  # INVALID
# instead it can only be reduced to
2001::1:0:0:0:3F
# or 
2001:0:0:1::3F

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A hybrid format may be used when dealing with IPv6 - IPv4 addresses called an IPv4-Mapped IPv6 Address (RFC 4291 - updated by RFC 5952 and RFC 6052) where the normal IPv4 dotted decimal notation may be used after the first 6, 16 bit address elements:

# generic IPv6-IPv4 format x.x.x.x.x.x.d.d.d.d
# example of an IPv4 mapped IPv6 address
# with an IPv4 number of 192.168.0.5
2001:db8:0:0:0:0:FFFF:192.168.0.5
# or using zero elimination
2001.db8::FFFF:192.168.0.5

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Notes:

1. The FFFF element in the 6th position is fixed and must be present (see also RFC 6052 for a peculiar shifted version of this format when used with certain IPv4/IPv6 translators).

2. To avoid publication of a global IPv4 the example above shows a private (non-globally unique) IPv4 address purely to illustrate the principle but the IPv4 address used in IPv4-Mapped IPv6 must always be globally unique address.

IPv6 Prefix or Slash Notation

IPv6 uses a similar / (forward slash) notation to IPv4 CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing) which describes the number of contiguous bits used in its netmask. Formally this way of writing an address is called an IP prefix but more commonly called the slash format. Examples:

# single user address
2001:db8::1/128
# normal user IPv6 address allocation 
# allows the user to control the low order 80 bits
2001:db8::/48
# values only required to cover the prefix
FE8::/10
# or top 3 bits only with fixed value 001 (binary)
2::/3

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IPv6 Address Types

The type of IP address is defined by a variable number of the top bits known as the binary prefix (BP). Only as many bits as required are used to identify the address type as shown in the following table (defined in RFC 4291):

Use	Binary Prefix	Slash	Description/Notes
Unspecified	00...0	::/128	IPv6 address = 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 (or ::) Used before an address allocated by DHCP (equivalent of IPv4 0.0.0.0)
Loopback	00...1	::1/128	IPv6 address = 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (or ::1) Local PC Loopback (equivalent of IPv4 127.0.0.1)
Multicast	1111 1111	FF::/8	Format. There is now a link-local multicast format defined by RFC 4489.
Link-Local unicast	1111 1110 10	FE8::/10	Local LAN scope. Lower bits (EUI-64) created from MAC address or other Interface Identifier. Format. There is now a link-local multicast format defined by RFC 4489.
Site-Local unicast	1111 1110 11	FEC::/10	Local Site scope. Lower bits assigned by user. This binary prefix has been marked Reserved by IANA to reflect the currently unsupported state of Site-Local addressing.
Global Unicast	All other values	2::/3	A note in RFC 3513 recommended that IANA should continue to allocate only from the binary prefix 001 (as in RFC 2373 version) but RFC 3587 obsoletes this recommendation. Format.

The revised definition is a conceptual change and is both more flexible than the previous (RFC 2373/RFC 3513) definition if a tad confusing. IPv4 and NSAP prefixes are still allowed for but are now simply unicast addresses. Subsequent changes (from RFC 3513 to RFC 4291) seem to be trying to remove some of the restrictions previously imposed such that RFCs now use the distinction between a binary prefix of 000 (covering IPv6 mapped IPv4, unassigned and loopback) and not 000 (all other unicast) rather than explicity using 001 as previously. The obsolescence of address block assignment from the previous binary prefix 001 seems to be of a theoretical nature since all current IANA address block assigments are still from this prefix.

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IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format

The IPv6 Global Unicast 128 bits was historically divided into a 48 bit global routing prefix (a.k.a site prefix) which is assigned by various authorities, a 16 bit subnet ID and 64 bits which the Interface ID (IID). The 16 bit subnet ID and IID (a total of 80 bits) is normally assigned and used by the user. While this structure is still the normal address allocation, the standards (RFC 4291) now define both the global routing prefix and the subnet ID to be of variable length (and using a total of 64 bits) in order to allow greater flexibility for the RIRs in allocating addresses. The formal structure is therefore:

Name	Size	Description/Notes
GRP	Variable	Global Routing Prefix. Variable format depending on the Binary Prefix, for instance, if 001 - Global Unicast Address (assigned by IANA) uses this format. See note about current standards structure above. Normally this part is 48 bits in length but - depending on RIR policies - can be as long as 56 bits.
subnet ID	Variable	Used for subnet routing. See notes about current standards structure above. Normally this part is 16 bits in length but - depending on RIR policies - can be as low as 8 bits or 0 is the user only requires a single subnet.
interface ID	64 bits	The unique interface identifier (host address equivalent in IPv4).

The current IPv6 address allocation policy adopted by the various Regional Internet Registries should be based on the IETF/IAB recomendation (in RFC 3177) which allows for:

Name	Allocation	Description/Notes
Normal User	/48	May cover home or business use. The user controls the full 80 bits addresses comprising the subnet ID (16 bits) and Interface ID (IID - 64 bits). Regional (RIRs) or Local Internet Registries (LIRs) seem to be able to allocate a /56 in which case the subnet is defined to be 8 bits and the IID remains, as normal, 64 bits. It is not clear under what circustances /56 addresses are allocated other than they provide another level of allocation flexibility for the RIRs/LIRs.
Single subnet	/64	Where it is known that only a single subnet can be used the user is assigned control of the interface ID part only
Single Device	/128	Where it is known that only one device can be used the user is assigned a single interface ID

The justification for this, seemingly generous, address allocation policy is that the 45 address bits (48 bit global routing prefix - 3 bit binary prefix) still allow ~35 trillion /48 allocations (contrasted with the earth's population prediction of a mere 9 billion by 2050).

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IPv6 End-User Address Format

End-User addresses are assigned from the Global Unicast pool (current IANA IPv6 address block assignments). In addition a list of special assigments was created by RFC 4773. The IETF 6bone used a special range of 3FFe::/16 but the 6bone is disbanded and the address range has been returned to the IANA Reserved pool. The 128 bits breakdown as follows:

Global Routing Prefix (GRP) of 48 - 64 bits - assigned by IANA/RIR/LIR.
Name	Size	Description/Notes
reserved	3 bits	001 (or simply not 000 in some RFCs) - Global Unicast Address prefix (assigned by IANA)
-	Variable	Prior to RFC 4291 this field was 45 bits in length and for the global unicast address defined a strict hierarchy of Aggregators using the terms, TLA (Top Level Aggregator), sub-TLA and NLA (Next Level Aggregator). RFC 4291 obsoleted this structure and essentially leaves any sub format to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). In addition the subnet ID field (previously defined to be 16 bits in length) is also defined to of variable length thus many of the current IPv6 specifications confusingly refer to the whole of this address space plus the subnet ID simply as the subnet ID to this field. IPv6 Global unicast address block assigments are maintained by IANA. The size of the IANA IPv6 address block assigment varies from /12 to /23.
80 - 64 bits - typically assigned by the user
Name	Size	Description/Notes
subnet ID	16 bits	Used for subnet routing. See notes above. This field is formally (within RFC 4291) of variable length and while 16 bits is the normal allocation it can be - depending on the RIR policies - as low as 8 bits or 0 is the user only requires a single subnet.
interface ID (IID)	64 bits	End User Interface (EUI-64). Equivalent to IPv4 host address - since this field alone is bigger that the whole IPv4 address space it is fairly generous! When used in stateless (SLAAC) configurations the EUI-64 address part may be created from the MAC as described below in Link Local. RFC 4941 defines a method by which temporary (pseudo random) addresses (EUI-64) may be created in order to create privacy (or anonymity).

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IPv6 Configuration

IPv6 systems are typically multi-homed by default and have a link-local address configured by the host and may have a global unicast address which may be configured by one of four methods:

1. Stateful - Statically assigned = manual configuration
2. Stateful - DHCPv6 - Automatically assigned
3. Stateless - Automatically assigned (SLAAC)
4. Stateless - Automatically assigned (SLAAC) with DHCPv6 support for DNS information.

IPv6 Stateless Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)

IPv6 systems may be configured to provide global unicast addresses using Stateless Address AutoConfiguation (SLAAC - defined by RFC 4862) using what is called generically the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NDP). Stateless autoconfiguration requires a router to be present but not a DHCP server. The process of creating a stateless IPv6 address is as follows:

1. Host sends a Router Solicitation message

2. Host waits for a Router Advertisement message.

3. Host takes top bits as defined in the Prefix Information of the Router Advertisement message and combines it with the 64 bit EUI-64 address (in the case of Ethernet this is created from the MAC address using this process) to create a Global Unicast address. The host also uses the source IP address - in the IP header - of the Router Advertisement (RA) message as its default gateway address. And since RFC 6106 can also obtain information about DNS service from the RA messages.

   RFC 4941 defines a method by which temporary (essentially pseudo-random from the interface derived EUI-64 address) addresses may be created in order to create privacy (or anonymity). RFC 4941 defines the default state of anonymous address creation as being off. If you wish anoymous access under IPv6 you may have to look for a specific configuration variable in your system to turn the anonymous feature on.

4. Host then performs a Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) to ensure the address is unique (and on any of the anaonymous addresses generated by RFC 4941 procedures). If this check fails the host immediately aborts the autoconfiguration process and must be manually configured.

Example:

# Interface MAC
00-40-63-ca-9a-20
# IPv6 Interface ID (EUI-64)
# Note: bit 7 (U/L) set - see link local notes
::0240:63FF:FECA:9A20
# or
::240:63FF:FECA:9A20
# Prefix from Router Advertisement
2001:db8::/64
# global Unicast address
2001:db8::240:63FF:FECA:9A20

Notes:

1. In stateless autoconfiguration (SLAAC) the global unicast (public address) and the default router address are configured automatically. Additional address information, such as DNS addresses, are not and must be provided by either DHCPv6 or manual configuration.

2. When using SLAAC the low order 64 bits (EUI-64) of the Link Local and the Global Unicast address will be identical since both are created using the same process.

IPv6 Link-Local Address Format

Link-Local addresses are automatically assigned by the end user equipment and require no external configuration. Format defined by RFC 4291 Section 2.5.6. The address format uses a unique binary prefix (FE8::/10) and the remaining bits (118) are built from the local interface identifier. In the case of ethernet (RFC 2464) the MAC (48 bits) is used to create the EUI-64 value as shown below. Each physical layer supported has a separate RFC for example, FDDI, IEEE 802.15.4 etc. defining, among other things, how the link-local address is created. If an interface identifier has more than 118 bits the link-local address cannot be generated and the unit must be manually configured. Link-local addresses are not routable globally (outside the local LAN/network - however that is defined). The 128 bits of a link-local address for an ethernet interface breakdown as follows:

10 bits - Binary Prefix
Name	Size	Description/Notes
Binary Prefix	10 bits	1111 1110 10 or FE8::/10 Link-Local Prefix
118 bits - constructed from interface MAC
Name	Size	Description/Notes
-	54 bits	all zeros
EUI-64 Contructed from the 48 bit MAC (802 LAN) or from a EUI-64 address(firewire etc.). Used both in Link-Local and SLAAC global unicast address construction
MAC	24 bits	Top 24 bits of the 48 bit interface MAC. Vendor ID. Additionally, when created using the MAC address - or another EUI-48 derivation scheme - bit 7 (bits numbered from 1 in normal IETF convention) of this value is set to 1. Manually configured addresses do not set this bit thus both simplifying their generation and allowing external systems to identify how the address was generated. Note: This is the reverse of the meaning of this bit in the MAC address.
ID	16 bits	Fixed value of FFFE inserted
MAC	24 bits	low 24 bits of the 48 bit interface MAC. Serial number.

Example

# Interface MAC
00-40-63-ca-9a-20
# IPv6 Interface ID (EUI-64)
# Note: bit 7 of MAC set - see notes above
::0240:63FF:FECA:9A20
# or
::240:63FF:FECA:9A20
# link local
FE80::240:63FF:FECA:9A20

IPv6 Multicast Address Format

The Multicast format (which also replaces broadcast in IPv4) is defined by RFC 4291 Section 2.7. There is now a link-local multicast format defined by RFC 4489. The fomat of a global (non link-local) multicast address is defined below:

Bizarre: RFC 4291 supposedly defines the IPv6 address structure including multi-cast addresses (2.7), however both RFC 3306 and RFC 3956 (earlier RFCs) define a more detailed format (not reflected in RFC 4291) which have been used to update the table below. Very disconcerting.

Name	Bits	Size	Value	Description/Notes
Binary Prefix	0 - 7	8	1111 1111	Fixed value a.k.a the routing prefix, binary prefix
ff1	8-11	4	XRPT	Flag field 1. X flag: Currently unused must be set to zero. R flag: (Defined as R flag in RFC 3956) 0 = no Rendevous Point (RP) encoded 1 = RP encoded using method defined by RFC 3956. T = 1 must also be set. P flag: (RFC 3306) 0 = The multicast address is not based on the network prefix 1 = the multicast address is assigned based on the network prefix (format defined in RFC 3306). T = 1 must also be set. T flag: 0 = "well-known" or permanently (IANA) assigned group 1 = "transient" group which has no IANA assignment
scope	12-15	4	-	May take one of the following assigned values: 0 - reserved 1 - interface-local scope 2 - link-local scope 3 - reserved 4 - admin-local scope 5 - site-local scope 6 - (unassigned) 7 - (unassigned) 8 - organization-local scope 9 - (unassigned) A - (unassigned) B - (unassigned) C - (unassigned) D - (unassigned) E - global scope F - reserved
ff2	17 - 20	4	rrrr	Flag Field 2. Values assigned by RFC 7371. Currently unused must be set to 0000 and ignored by receivers.
RIID	21 - 24	4	-	RP (Rendezvous Point) Interface ID. Valid when X = 0 and R = 1 (implying that both P and T = 1) in ff1.
plen	25 - 32	8	-	If P = 1 (in ff1 above) indicates the number of bits used in the Network Prefix field below.
Network Prefix	33 - 96	64	-	"network prefix identifies the network prefix of the unicast subnet owning the multicast address. If P = 1, this field contains the unicast network prefix assigned to the domain owning, or allocating, the multicast address". Assumed to be a right aligned field (RFC silent on the matter), further assumed that if P = 0 field is not used (again RFC is silent on the matter).
Group ID	97 - 127	32	-	Uniquely assigned by IANA if "well-known" bit = 0 set in T flag above. The current list of IANA IPv6 Multicast assignments

The following lists some of the more common multicast groups:

Address	Description/Notes
FF01::1	Interface local - all nodes
FF02::1	Link local - all nodes
FF01::2	Interface local - all routers
FF02::2	Link local - all routers

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IPv6 Link Local Multicast Address Format

As if this stuff was not already complicated RFC 4489 introduced the concept of a link-local (or link scoped) multicast format for situations where all configuration is stateless. Theoretically, routers (and other equipment) servicing a local (non-global) network could be now made self-configuring.

Name	Bits	Size	Value	Description/Notes
Binary Prefix	0 - 7	8	1111 1111	Fixed value a.k.a the routing prefix, binary prefix
flags	8-11	4	0RPT	Flags have same meaning as defined for global multicast and must be set to 0011 meaning that T = 1 = "transient" group which has no IANA assignment and R = 1 = RP (Rendevous Point) encoded using method defined by RFC 3956.
scope	12-15	4	-	Scope has the same meaning as defined for global multicast but can only take the values: 0 - reserved 1 - interface-local scope 2 - link-local scope
Reserved	16 - 23	8	-	Reserved - must be 0
plen	24 - 31	8	-	Fixed value of 1111 1111 denotes a link-local (or link scoped) multicast address
IID (EUI-64)	32 - 95	64	-	Assigned using the normal link-local process depending on the media type.
Group ID	96 - 127	32	-	Since the T bit is set this group ID is not defined by IANA though RFC 4489 does indicate that the guidelines for multicast address generation could be used (RFC 4489 and its position within the address also implies a mask of /96 applied to both the glocal and link-local format would yield a similar result. The current list of IANA IPv6 Multicast assignments

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IPv6 - IPv4 Interworking

IPv6 allows transport of IPv4 addresses using two methods. The methods are described in RFC 2893/RFC 4038 and RFC 4291 Section 2.5.5.

The first method is termed an "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address" and must use a globally unique IPv4 address. Please note: To avoid publication of a global IPv4 the example below shows a private (non-globally unique) IPv4 address purely to illustrate the principle:

# IPv4-compatible IPv6 address
# assume the host has an IPv4 address of:
192.168.0.5
# this is represented by the hex value C0A80005
# the IPv4-compatible IPv6 address would be
::C0A8:5
# or if you like writing zeros
0:0:0:0:0:0:C0A8:5
# or using the hybrid IPv6 - IPv4 notation
::192.168.0.5

The IPv4-compatible IPv6 address format is used when the end interface supports both IPv6 and IPv4 (a dual stack interface). This method is now deprecated (RFC 4291).

The second method is termed an "IPv4-mapped IPv6 address" and must use a globally unique IPv4 address. Please note: To avoid publication of a global IPv4 the example below shows a private (non-globally unique) IPv4 address purely to illustrate the principle:

# IPv4-mapped IPv6 address
# assume the host has an IPv4 address of:
192.168.0.5
# this address is represented by the hex value C0A80005
# the IPv4-mapped IPv6 address would be
::FFFF:C0A8:5
# or if you like writing zeros
0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:C0A8:5
# or using the hybrid IPv6 - IPv4 notation
::FFFF:192.168.0.5

The IPv4-mapped IPv6 address format is used when the end interface supports only IPv4 and indicates that a configured IPv6 system, for instance, a router or the IPv6 stack will have to perform conversion to the IPv4 protocol prior to communicating with the interface.

IPv6 over IPv4 Interworking

IPv6 over IPv4 (more commonly refered to these days as 6to4) allows two IPv6 networks/devices to communicate over an IPv4 network (defined by RFC 3056). Both ends of the network must have a globally unique IPv4 address and the end points must run either a 6to4 relay or a 6to4 transit service. A special unicast address block has been assigned for these classes of service (2002::/16). The IPv6 address format used by this address block is defined below

Name	Bits	Size	Value	Description/Notes
Unicast Prefix	0 - 15	16	2002::/16	IANA assigned value.
IPv4 Address	16 - 47	32	IPv4 Global Address	IPv4 address associated with this 6to4 relay or transit service
subnet ID	48 - 63	16	-	Normal usage
IID	64 - 1273	64	-	Interface ID (EUI-64)

The low order 80 bits allow for end user transparency within the IPv6 address. The relay or transit service will extract the IPv4 address when communicating accross the IPv4 cloud.

Note: Another IPv4 to IPv6 transition method is biting the dust. RFC 7526 deprecates the reserved Unicast prefix (2002::/16) used in 6to4 tunneling. For backward compability the feature will still exist but for new implementations: forget it. Meh.

IPv6 Address Calculator

IPv6 Calculator: Enter an IPv6 address with its /Prefix (or slash) notation in the IPv6/Prefix: box and click IPv6 Info. The calculator will fully expand the IPv6 address and place in IPv6 Expanded:, IPv6 Netmask in compressed format, IPv6 GPR contains the top part or the address which may be the Global Routing Prefix (GRP) or not depending on the /Prefix value and IPv6 User: is the lower part of the address based on the /Prefix value. Finally, the reverse map zone name of the IPv6 address is calculated based on the /Prefix value (IPv6 addresses below this name will be defined in the reverse zone file) and shown in FQDN format in Reverse Zone. In Zone IPv6: shows the IPv6 address element that would appear with the zone file based on the /Prefix value. Since IPv6 addresses cover very serious numbers the No. of IPs: box is only used in the alternative mode described below and is only updated in that context.

Alternatively, enter a single IPv6 address (that lies anywhere in the desired range) without the /prefix in IPv6/Prefix and the number of desired IP addresses (if it is not a power of 2 it will be rounded up to the nearest power of 2 - a maximum of 6 digits is allowed) in No. of IPs then click IPv6 Info. The calculator will populate IPv6/Prefix (with the calculated /Prefix to cover the required or calculated number of IP addresses), No. of IPs will be updated if needed (due to any power of 2 rounding required) and IPv6 Netmask, IPv6 GPR, IPv6 User:, Reverse Zone and In Zone IPv6: will be populated normally.

The Clear button zaps ALL entries in IPv6 Calculator only.

Notes:

1. Validation and other errors are shown in the IPv6 Netmask box for no very good reason.

2. When entering a /prefix IPv6 address you only need to enter as many colon elements as are required by the /prefix (more is not a problem), if you enter less than the required number the calculator silently pads to the right with zeros.

3. While a /Prefix for IPv6 is most normally a multiple of 8 (or even 16) the calculator allows any bit value. You can break on very strange boundaries if desired.

4. The calculator follows the recommendation of RFC 5952 about use of lower case hexadecimal characters, removal of all leading zeros in address elements, largest zero block elimination but it will eliminate a single zero block if this is the only one available (since this obeys the longest zero block elimination rule).

5. The calculator accepts IPv6 addresses in IPv4-Mapped IPv6 format (x:x:x:x:x:x:d.d.d.d) but does not verify that the required selectors are present. You currently have to do some work.

IPv6/Prefix:		No. of IPs:
IPv6 Expanded:
IPv6 Netmask:
IPv6 GPR:
IPv6 User:
Reverse zone:
In Zone IPv6:

Notes:

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IPv6 Frame Format

IPv6 headers are daisy chained. The Next Header field - present in every header except the upper layer header - indicates which header comes next as shown in the diagram below:

Notes:

1. Zero or more Extension headers may be present.

2. Multiple Extension headers of any type may be present.

3. All Extension headers are assumed to be of variable length and contain a length value (expressed in multiples of 8 octets).

4. Only one upper layer header may be present and is unchanged from IPv4 e.g. tcp with the exception of the format of the 'pseudo-header' used to generate the checksum.

5. Data (MTU) length is defined to be a minimum of 1280 octets with a recommendation of 1500+ octets. If any routing link cannot carry this size of MTU, link specific fragmentation must be carried out below (i.e. invisible to) IPv6.

6. When carrying UDP traffic in the upper layers the optional (in IPv4) UDP checksum MUST be present.

7. The pseudo header used in TCP, UDP and IPv6 ICMP is assumed be a 40 octet field and have the following format:

   Name	Size	Description/Notes
   Source	128 bits	IPv6 source address
   Destination	128 bits	IPv6 destination address
   Packet Length	32 bits	Length in octets of the upper layer data packet plus associated header.
   -	24 bits	Must be zeros
   Next Header	8 bits	Assumed to contain the value of the protocol carried in the upper layer e.g. 6 = TCP etc..

IPv6 Header Format

IPv6 Header Format
Name	Length	Description/Notes
version	4 bits	value = 6. Same location as IPv4 - everything after this changes.
traffic class	8 bits	None formally defined with IANA (late 2004). When used with Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) (RFC 3168) may take values defined here and here.
Flow Label	20 bits	-
payload length	16 bits	unsigned length in octets of payload (excludes header but includes extensions)
next header	8 bits	Identifier in following header - same values as IPv4 Protocol field Some common values: 0 (0x00) IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Option 1 (0x01) ICMP protocol 2 (0x02) IGMP protocol 4 (0x04) IP over IP 6 (0x06) TCP protocol 17 (0x11) UDP protocol 41 (0x29) IPv6 protocol 58 (0x3A) IPv6 ICMP protocol 59 (0x3B) IPv6 No Next Header (terminates a no upper layer frame) Definitive list is here
hop limit	8 bits	Maximum number of hops. Formalises the current practice when using the TTL in IPv4.
source IP	128 bits	-
destination IP	128 bits	-

Order of Headers

Where multiple headers are present the recommended sender order is (but the receiver must accept in any order):

IPv6 Header
Hop-by-Hop Header
Destination Options
Routing Headers
Fragment Headers
Authentication Headers
Encapsulation Security Payload (ESP) Header
Destination Options
Upper Layer Header + data

Extension Headers

Extension headers are always multiples of 8 octets. To allow skipping and processing of extension headers they all begin with the following 16 bit stub format:

IPv6 Extension Header - Stub format
Name	Length	Description/Notes
Next Header	8 bits	Same values as IPv6 Next Header
Extension Hdr Len	8 bits	Unsigned integer. The total length of the extension header in multiples of 8 octets, excluding the first 8 octets e.g. a value of 0 = 8 octet header length, value = 2 = 24 octet header length etc. NB the length field in ICMPv6 does not use this convention - it's always good to have consistency in standards.

Header Options

The Hop-By-Hop and Destination Headers carry a variable number of options within the header and use a classic TLD (or TLV in the standards paralance) format as shown below:

Name	Length	Description/Notes
Type	8 bits	The two high order (or low order depending on your numbering convention) bits indicate what action to take if the option is not recognized and may take one of the following values: 00 = skip option - keep processing 01 = discard packet 10 = discard packet and send ICMPv6 Parameter Problem (Code 2) message 11 = discard packet and, if not Multicast address, send ICMPv6 Parameter Problem (Code 2) message The third high order bit indicates whether the option can change before reaching its destination 0 = data will not change, 1 = data may change. If the bit is set and an Authentication Header is present then an all zero option value must be assumed when computing any digest.
Length	8 bits	Length in octets of the option data - does not include the type or length value.
Data	variable	Depends on Type

In order to force so-called natural alignment of option fields two padding options are provided. An Option Type of 0 indicates a 1 octet pad (and does not have associated length or data fields), a standard Option with a Type of 1 allows for multiple octet padding. NB in this case a 2 octet pad will have an Option Length of 0.

IPv6 Hop-By-Hop Header

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IPv6 Destination Header

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IPv6 RFCs

This rather daunting list of RFCs describe IPv6 or are relevant to it. Many of the later RFCs simply roll-back features of the earlier ones. Most of the new work is associated with mobile development and various tunneling methods.

Note: The main repository for RFCs is maintained by the IETF, text versions (the normative reference, but PDF and HTML versions are also available) may be viewed at www.ietf.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt or www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt (where XXXX is the 4 digit RFC number - left padded with zeros as necessary). Currently published RFCs are pointed to https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcXXXX which contains various information and links to the text (normative) reference and PDF and HTML (non-normative) version. The RFC may also be viewed at http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfcXXXX/ which also contains various RFC status information including errata together with a list of alternative formats, such as, text, PDF and HTML (this is the working area version of the document). Finally, there is now a searchable RFC list.

<ingrained habit> The RFC links below yield a plain text (nrmative) version which was copied to our site when the RFC was issued. We started this service a long time ago when the world was young, RFCs were maintained in some strange places, occasionally moved location, and performance and reliability of the repositories was very variable (being generous). None of these conditions apply today, far from it. The RFC repository is a robust, fast service. Nevertheless, we persist in our ingrained habits for no particularly good reason (old dog...new tricks..). If you want/prefer/need more choice you are advised to use one of the links identified above, if, however, you just want to read the darned RFC, feel free to click the links below.</ingrained habit>

RFC	Description/Status
RFC 1809	Using the Flow Label Field in IPv6. C. Partridge. June 1995. (Format: TXT=13591 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 1881	IPv6 Address Allocation Management. IAB, IESG. December 1995. (Format: TXT=3215 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 1883	Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. S. Deering, R. Hinden. December 1995. (Format: TXT=82089 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC2460) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 1885	Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). A. Conta, S. Deering. December 1995. (Format: TXT=32214 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC2463) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 1887	An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation. Y. Rekhter, T. Li, Eds.. December 1995. (Format: TXT=66066 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 1888	OSI NSAPs and IPv6. J. Bound, B. Carpenter, D. Harrington, J. Houldsworth, A. Lloyd. August 1996. (Format: TXT=36469 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 1924	A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses. R. Elz. Apr-01-1996. (Format: TXT=10409 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 1932	IP over ATM: A Framework Document. R. Cole, D. Shur, C. Villamizar. April 1996. (Format: TXT=68031 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 2080	RIPng for IPv6. G. Malkin, R. Minnear. January 1997. (Format: TXT=47534 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2375	IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments. R. Hinden, S. Deering. July 1998. (Format: TXT=14356 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 2428	FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs. M. Allman, S. Ostermann, C. Metz. September 1998. (Format: TXT=16028 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2460	Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. S. Deering, R. Hinden. December 1998. (Format: TXT=85490 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1883) (Updated by RFC5095, RFC5722) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 2461	Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6). T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson. December 1998. (Format: TXT=222516 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1970) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 2462	IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. S. Thomson, T. Narten. December 1998. (Format: TXT=61210 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1971) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 2463	Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. A. Conta, S. Deering. December 1998. (Format: TXT=34190 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1885) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 2464	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks. M. Crawford. December 1998. (Format: TXT=12725 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1972) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2465	Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group. D. Haskin, S. Onishi. December 1998. (Format: TXT=77339 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2466	Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group. D. Haskin, S. Onishi. December 1998. (Format: TXT=27547 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2467	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks. M. Crawford. December 1998. (Format: TXT=16028 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2019) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2492	IPv6 over ATM Networks. G. Armitage, P. Schulter, M. Jork. January 1999. (Format: TXT=21199 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2526	Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses. D. Johnson, S. Deering. March 1999. (Format: TXT=14555 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2529	Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels. B. Carpenter, C. Jung. March 1999. (Format: TXT=21049 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2545	Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing. P. Marques, F. Dupont. March 1999. (Format: TXT=10209 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2673	Binary Labels in the Domain Name System. M. Crawford. August 1999. (Format: TXT=12379 bytes) (Updated by RFC3363, RFC3364) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 2675	IPv6 Jumbograms. D. Borman, S. Deering, R. Hinden. August 1999. (Format: TXT=17320 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2147) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2710	Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6. S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman. October 1999. (Format: TXT=46838 bytes) (Updated by RFC3590, RFC3810) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2711	IPv6 Router Alert Option. C. Partridge, A. Jackson. October 1999. (Format: TXT=11973 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2732	Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's. R. Hinden, B. Carpenter, L. Masinter. December 1999. (Format: TXT=7984 bytes) (Updates RFC2396) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2740	OSPF for IPv6. R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy. December 1999. (Format: TXT=189810 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2766	Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT). G. Tsirtsis, P. Srisuresh. February 2000. (Format: TXT=49836 bytes) (Updated by RFC3152) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2893	Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers. R. Gilligan, E. Nordmark. August 2000. (Format: TXT=62731 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1933) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2894	Router Renumbering for IPv6. M. Crawford. August 2000. (Format: TXT=69135 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 2928	Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments. R. Hinden, S. Deering, R. Fink, T. Hain. September 2000. (Format: TXT=11882 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3041	Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6. T. Narten, R. Draves. January 2001. (Format: TXT=44446 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC4941) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3056	Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds. B. Carpenter, K. Moore. February 2001. (Format: TXT=54902 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3111	Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6. E. Guttman. May 2001. (Format: TXT=25543 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3122	Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification. A. Conta. June 2001. (Format: TXT=40416 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3146	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks. K. Fujisawa, A. Onoe. October 2001. (Format: TXT=16569 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3152	Delegation of IP6.ARPA. R. Bush. August 2001. (Format: TXT=5727 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC3596) (Updates RFC2874, RFC2772, RFC2766, RFC2553, RFC1886) (Also BCP0049) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)
RFC 3162	RADIUS and IPv6. B. Aboba, G. Zorn, D. Mitton. August 2001. (Format: TXT=20492 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3175	Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations. F. Baker, C. Iturralde, F. Le Faucheur, B. Davie. September 2001. (Format: TXT=88681 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3177	IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites. IAB, IESG. September 2001. (Format: TXT=23178 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3266	Support for IPv6 in Session Description Protocol (SDP). S. Olson, G. Camarillo, A. B. Roach. June 2002. (Format: TXT=8693 bytes) (Updates RFC2327) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3306	Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses. B. Haberman, D. Thaler. August 2002. (Format: TXT=12713 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3307	Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses. B. Haberman. August 2002. (Format: TXT=15742 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3314	Recommendations for IPv6 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Standards. M. Wasserman, Ed.. September 2002. (Format: TXT=48168 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3315	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). R. Droms, Ed., J. Bound, B. Volz, T. Lemon, C. Perkins, M. Carney. July 2003. (Format: TXT=231402 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3363	Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name System (DNS). R. Bush, A. Durand, B. Fink, O. Gudmundsson, T. Hain. August 2002. (Format: TXT=11055 bytes) (Updates RFC2673, RFC2874) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3364	Tradeoffs in Domain Name System (DNS) Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). R. Austein. August 2002. (Format: TXT=26544 bytes) (Updates RFC2673, RFC2874) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3484	Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). R. Draves. February 2003. (Format: TXT=55076 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3513	Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture. R. Hinden, S. Deering. April 2003. (Format: TXT=53920 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2373) (Status: obsoleted by RFC4291)
RFC 3587	IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format. R. Hinden, S. Deering, E. Nordmark. August 2003. (Format: TXT=8783 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2374) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3596	DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6. S. Thomson, C. Huitema, V. Ksinant, M. Souissi. October 2003. (Format: TXT=14093 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3152, RFC1886) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 3633	IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6. O. Troan, R. Droms. December 2003. (Format: TXT=45308 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3646	DNS Configuration options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). R. Droms, Ed.. December 2003. (Format: TXT=13312 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3697	IPv6 Flow Label Specification. J. Rajahalme, A. Conta, B. Carpenter, S. Deering. March 2004. (Format: TXT=21296 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3736	Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6. R. Droms. April 2004. (Format: TXT=18510 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3775	Mobility Support in IPv6. D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko. June 2004. (Format: TXT=393514 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3776	Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling Between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents. J. Arkko, V. Devarapalli, F. Dupont. June 2004. (Format: TXT=87076 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3810	Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6. R. Vida, Ed., L. Costa, Ed.. June 2004. (Format: TXT=153579 bytes) (Updates RFC2710) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3831	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel. C. DeSanti. July 2004. (Format: TXT=53328 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 3849	IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation. G. Huston, A. Lord, P. Smith. July 2004. (Format: TXT=7872 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 3901	DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines. A. Durand, J. Ihren. September 2004. (Format: TXT=10025 bytes) (Also BCP0091) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)
RFC 3956	Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address. P. Savola, B. Haberman. November 2004. (Format: TXT=40136 bytes) (Updates RFC3306) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4007	IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture. S. Deering, B. Haberman, T. Jinmei, E. Nordmark, B. Zill. March 2005. (Format: TXT=53555 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4038	Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition. M-K. Shin, Ed., Y-G. Hong, J. Hagino, P. Savola, E. M. Castro. March 2005. (Format: TXT=69727 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4074	Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses. Y. Morishita, T. Jinmei. May 2005. (Format: TXT=13073 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4147	Proposed Changes to the Format of the IANA IPv6 Registry. G. Huston. August 2005. (Format: TXT=21196 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4193	Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses. R. Hinden, B. Haberman. October 2005. (Format: TXT=35908 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4213	Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers. E. Nordmark, R. Gilligan. October 2005. (Format: TXT=58575 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2893) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4215	Analysis on IPv6 Transition in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Networks. J. Wiljakka, Ed.. October 2005. (Format: TXT=52903 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4242	Information Refresh Time Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). S. Venaas, T. Chown, B. Volz. November 2005. (Format: TXT=14759 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4260	Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 802.11 Networks. P. McCann. November 2005. (Format: TXT=35276 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4283	Mobile Node Identifier Option for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). A. Patel, K. Leung, M. Khalil, H. Akhtar, K. Chowdhury. November 2005. (Format: TXT=14653 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4283	Mobile Node Identifier Option for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). A. Patel, K. Leung, M. Khalil, H. Akhtar, K. Chowdhury. November 2005. (Format: TXT=14653 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4291	IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture. R. Hinden, S. Deering. February 2006. (Format: TXT=52897 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3513) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 4295	Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base. G. Keeni, K. Koide, K. Nagami, S. Gundavelli. April 2006. (Format: TXT=209038 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4311	IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing. R. Hinden, D. Thaler. November 2005. (Format: TXT=10156 bytes) (Updates RFC2461) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4339	IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches. J. Jeong, Ed.. February 2006. (Format: TXT=60803 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4380	Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs). C. Huitema. February 2006. (Format: TXT=132607 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4429	Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6. N. Moore. April 2006. (Format: TXT=33123 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4443	Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. A. Conta, S. Deering, M. Gupta, Ed.. March 2006. (Format: TXT=48969 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2463) (Updates RFC2780) (Status: INTERNET STANDARD)
RFC 4449	Securing Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization Using a Static Shared Key. C. Perkins. June 2006. (Format: TXT=15080 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4489	A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses. J-S. Park, M-K. Shin, H-J. Kim. April 2006. (Format: TXT=12224 bytes) (Updates RFC3306) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4649	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option. B. Volz. August 2006. (Format: TXT=10940 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4704	The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Client Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Option. B. Volz. October 2006. (Format: TXT=32359 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4727	Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers. B. Fenner. November 2006. (Format: TXT=19745 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4773	Administration of the IANA Special Purpose IPv6 Address Block. G. Huston. December 2006. (Format: TXT=10580 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4776	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Option for Civic Addresses Configuration Information. H. Schulzrinne. November 2006. (Format: TXT=45495 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC4676) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4779	ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access Networks. S. Asadullah, A. Ahmed, C. Popoviciu, P. Savola, J. Palet. January 2007. (Format: TXT=188511 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4798	Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE). J. De Clercq, D. Ooms, S. Prevost, F. Le Faucheur. February 2007. (Format: TXT=31381 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4818	RADIUS Delegated-IPv6-Prefix Attribute. J. Salowey, R. Droms. April 2007. (Format: TXT=12993 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4843	An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers (ORCHID). P. Nikander, J. Laganier, F. Dupont. April 2007. (Format: TXT=32483 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 4852	IPv6 Enterprise Network Analysis - IP Layer 3 Focus. J. Bound, Y. Pouffary, S. Klynsma, T. Chown, D. Green. April 2007. (Format: TXT=76199 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4861	Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6). T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, H. Soliman. September 2007. (Format: TXT=235106 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2461) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 4862	IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. S. Thomson, T. Narten, T. Jinmei. September 2007. (Format: TXT=72482 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2462) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 4864	Local Network Protection for IPv6. G. Van de Velde, T. Hain, R. Droms, B. Carpenter, E. Klein. May 2007. (Format: TXT=95448 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4866	Enhanced Route Optimization for Mobile IPv6. J. Arkko, C. Vogt, W. Haddad. May 2007. (Format: TXT=145757 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4877	Mobile IPv6 Operation with IKEv2 and the Revised IPsec Architecture. V. Devarapalli, F. Dupont. April 2007. (Format: TXT=57941 bytes) (Updates RFC3776) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4882	IP Address Location Privacy and Mobile IPv6: Problem Statement. R. Koodli. May 2007. (Format: TXT=24987 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4890	Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls. E. Davies, J. Mohacsi. May 2007. (Format: TXT=83479 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4891	Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels. R. Graveman, M. Parthasarathy, P. Savola, H. Tschofenig. May 2007. (Format: TXT=46635 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4919	IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs): Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and Goals. N. Kushalnagar, G. Montenegro, C. Schumacher. August 2007. (Format: TXT=27650 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4941	Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6. T. Narten, R. Draves, S. Krishnan. September 2007. (Format: TXT=56699 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3041) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 4942	IPv6 Transition/Co-existence Security Considerations. E. Davies, S. Krishnan, P. Savola. September 2007. (Format: TXT=102878 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4943	IPv6 Neighbor Discovery On-Link Assumption Considered Harmful. S. Roy, A. Durand, J. Paugh. September 2007. (Format: TXT=16719 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 4944	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks. G. Montenegro, N. Kushalnagar, J. Hui, D. Culler. September 2007. (Format: TXT=67232 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 4968	Analysis of IPv6 Link Models for 802.16 Based Networks. S. Madanapalli, Ed.. August 2007. (Format: TXT=34536 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5006	IPv6 Router Advertisement Option for DNS Configuration. J. Jeong, Ed., S. Park, L. Beloeil, S. Madanapalli. September 2007. (Format: TXT=26136 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 5007	DHCPv6 Leasequery. J. Brzozowski, K. Kinnear, B. Volz, S. Zeng. September 2007. (Format: TXT=47186 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5014	IPv6 Socket API for Source Address Selection. E. Nordmark, S. Chakrabarti, J. Laganier. September 2007. (Format: TXT=53601 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5026	Mobile IPv6 Bootstrapping in Split Scenario. G. Giaretta, Ed., J. Kempf, V. Devarapalli, Ed.. October 2007. (Format: TXT=63138 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5072	IP Version 6 over PPP. S.Varada, Ed., D. Haskins, E. Allen. September 2007. (Format: TXT=33910 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2472) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
RFC 5094	Mobile IPv6 Vendor Specific Option. V. Devarapalli, A. Patel, K. Leung. December 2007. (Format: TXT=11430 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5095	Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6. J. Abley, P. Savola, G. Neville-Neil. December 2007. (Format: TXT=13423 bytes) (Updates RFC2460, RFC4294) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5096	Mobile IPv6 Experimental Messages. V. Devarapalli. December 2007. (Format: TXT=13669 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5121	Transmission of IPv6 via the IPv6 Convergence Sublayer over IEEE 802.16 Networks. B. Patil, F. Xia, B. Sarikaya, JH. Choi, S. Madanapalli. February 2008. (Format: TXT=50092 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5149	Service Selection for Mobile IPv6. J. Korhonen, U. Nilsson, V. Devarapalli. February 2008. (Format: TXT=18746 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5156	Special-Use IPv6 Addresses. M. Blanchet. April 2008. (Format: TXT=11931 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5157	IPv6 Implications for Network Scanning. T. Chown. March 2008. (Format: TXT=29054 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5158	6to4 Reverse DNS Delegation Specification. G. Huston. March 2008. (Format: TXT=25536 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5175	IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option. B. Haberman, Ed., R. Hinden. March 2008. (Format: TXT=12463 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC5075) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5180	IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices. C. Popoviciu, A. Hamza, G. Van de Velde, D. Dugatkin. May 2008. (Format: TXT=41712 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5181	IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in 802.16 Networks. M-K. Shin, Ed., Y-H. Han, S-E. Kim, D. Premec. May 2008. (Format: TXT=36671 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5213	Proxy Mobile IPv6. S. Gundavelli, Ed., K. Leung, V. Devarapalli, K. Chowdhury, B. Patil. August 2008. (Format: TXT=226902 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5269	Distributing a Symmetric Fast Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) Handover Key Using SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND). J. Kempf, R. Koodli. June 2008. (Format: TXT=32742 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5270	Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers over IEEE 802.16e Networks. H. Jang, J. Jee, Y. Han, S. Park, J. Cha. June 2008. (Format: TXT=42358 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5271	Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G CDMA Networks. H. Yokota, G. Dommety. June 2008. (Format: TXT=49316 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5375	IPv6 Unicast Address Assignment Considerations. G. Van de Velde, C. Popoviciu, T. Chown, O. Bonness, C. Hahn. December 2008. (Format: TXT=83809 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5380	Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) Mobility Management. H. Soliman, C. Castelluccia, K. ElMalki, L. Bellier. October 2008. (Format: TXT=58330 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC4140) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5419	Why the Authentication Data Suboption is Needed for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). B. Patil, G. Dommety. January 2009. (Format: TXT=45178 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5447	Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Network Access Server to Diameter Server Interaction. J. Korhonen, Ed., J. Bournelle, H. Tschofenig, C. Perkins, K. Chowdhury. February 2009. (Format: TXT=38656 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5453	Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers. S. Krishnan. February 2009. (Format: TXT=11754 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5534	Failure Detection and Locator Pair Exploration Protocol for IPv6 Multihoming. J. Arkko, I. van Beijnum. June 2009. (Format: TXT=88152 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5555	Mobile IPv6 Support for Dual Stack Hosts and Routers. H. Soliman, Ed.. June 2009. (Format: TXT=92387 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5568	Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers. R. Koodli, Ed.. July 2009. (Format: TXT=121373 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC5268) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5569	IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd). R. Despres. January 2010. (Format: TXT=21159 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5570	Common Architecture Label IPv6 Security Option (CALIPSO). M. StJohns, R. Atkinson, G. Thomas. July 2009. (Format: TXT=128032 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5637	Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Goals for Mobile IPv6. G. Giaretta, I. Guardini, E. Demaria, J. Bournelle, R. Lopez. September 2009. (Format: TXT=23409 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 5722	Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments. S. Krishnan. December 2009. (Format: TXT=11838 bytes) (Updates RFC2460) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5844	IPv4 Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6. R. Wakikawa, S. Gundavelli. May 2010. (Format: TXT=116102 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5952	A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation. S. Kawamura, M. Kawashima. August 2010. (Format: TXT=26570 bytes) (Updates RFC4291) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 5969	IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd) -- Protocol Specification. W. Townsley, O. Troan. August 2010. (Format: TXT=45278 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6052	IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators. C. Bao, C. Huitema, M. Bagnulo, M. Boucadair, X. Li. October 2010. (Format: TXT=41849 bytes) (Updates RFC4291) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6058	Transient Binding for Proxy Mobile IPv6. M. Liebsch, A. Muhanna, O. Blume. March 2011. (Obsoletes RFC3177) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 6106	IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration. J. Jeong, S. Park, L. Beloeil, S. Madanapalli. November 2010. (Format: TXT=45181 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC5006) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6144	Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation. F. Baker, X. Li, C. Bao, K. Yin. April 2011. (Format: TXT=67181 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6146	Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers. M. Bagnulo, P. Matthews, I. van Beijnum. April 2011. (Format: TXT=107954 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6156	Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extension for IPv6. G. Camarillo, O. Novo, S. Perreault, Ed.. April 2011. (Format: TXT=27758 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6177	IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites. T. Narten, G. Huston, L. Roberts. March 2011. (Obsoletes RFC3177) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)
RFC 6180	Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms during IPv6 Deployment. J. Arkko, F. Baker. May 2011. (Format: TXT=49679 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6264	An Incremental Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) for IPv6 Transition. S. Jiang, D. Guo, B. Carpenter. June 2011. (Format: TXT=31881 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6275	Mobility Support in IPv6. C. Perkins, Ed., D. Johnson, J. Arkko. July 2011. (Format: TXT=405488 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3775) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6282	Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks. J. Hui, Ed., P. Thubert. September 2011. (Format: TXT=52588 bytes) (Updates RFC4944) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC6282)
RFC 6296	IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation. M. Wasserman, F. Baker. June 2011. (Format: TXT=73700 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 6333	Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion. A. Durand, R. Droms, J. Woodyatt, Y. Lee. August 2011. (Format: TXT=65622 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6334	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Option for Dual-Stack Lite. D. Hankins, T. Mrugalski. August 2011. (Format: TXT=14362 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6342	Mobile Networks Considerations for IPv6 Deployment. R. Koodli. August 2011. (Format: TXT=46288 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC6312) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6343	Advisory Guidelines for 6to4 Deployment. B. Carpenter. August 2011. (Format: TXT=51496 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6434	IPv6 Node Requirements. E. Jankiewicz, J. Loughney, T. Narten. December 2011. (Format: TXT=64407 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC4294) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6459	IPv6 in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Evolved Packet System (EPS). J. Korhonen, Ed., J. Soininen, B. Patil, T. Savolainen, G. Bajko, K. Iisakkila. January 2012. (Format: TXT=84769 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6535	Dual-Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-Host" (BIH). B. Huang, H. Deng, T. Savolainen. February 2012. (Format: TXT=54452 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2767, RFC3338) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6540	IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes. W. George, C. Donley, C. Liljenstolpe, L. Howard. April 2012. (Format: TXT=12883 bytes) (Also BCP0177) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6543	Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifier for Proxy Mobile IPv6. S. Gundavelli. May 2012. (Format: TXT=10565 bytes) (Updates RFC5213) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6547	RFC 3627 to Historic Status. W. George. February 2012. (Format: TXT=4917 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3627) (Updates RFC6164) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6602	Bulk Binding Update Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6. F. Abinader, Ed., S. Gundavelli, Ed., K. Leung, S. Krishnan, D. Premec. May 2012. (Format: TXT=56348 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6606	Problem Statement and Requirements for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing. E. Kim, D. Kaspar, C. Gomez, C. Bormann. May 2012. (Format: TXT=75436 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6610	DHCP Options for Home Information Discovery in Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). H. Jang, A. Yegin, K. Chowdhury, J. Choi, T. Lemon. May 2012. (Format: TXT=36878 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6611	Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) Bootstrapping for the Integrated Scenario. K. Chowdhury, Ed., A. Yegin. May 2012. (Format: TXT=27152 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6612	Interactions between Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) and Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6): Scenarios and Related Issues. G. Giaretta, Ed.. May 2012. (Format: TXT=40116 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6618	Mobile IPv6 Security Framework Using Transport Layer Security for Communication between the Mobile Node and Home Agent. J. Korhonen, Ed., B. Patil, H. Tschofenig, D. Kroeselberg. May 2012. (Format: TXT=87475 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 6654	Gateway-Initiated IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (GI 6rd). T. Tsou, C. Zhou, T. Taylor, Q. Chen. July 2012. (Format: TXT=16949 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6705	Localized Routing for Proxy Mobile IPv6. S. Krishnan, R. Koodli, P. Loureiro, Q. Wu, A. Dutta. September 2012. (Format: TXT=43309 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6724	Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). D. Thaler, Ed., R. Draves, A. Matsumoto, T. Chown. September 2012. (Format: TXT=74407 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3484) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6732	6to4 Provider Managed Tunnels. V. Kuarsingh, Ed., Y. Lee, O. Vautrin. September 2012. (Format: TXT=28156 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6743	ICMP Locator Update Message for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6). RJ Atkinson, SN Bhatti. November 2012. (Format: TXT=24972 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 6744	IPv6 Nonce Destination Option for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6). RJ Atkinson, SN Bhatti. November 2012. (Format: TXT=33737 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 6751	Native IPv6 behind IPv4-to-IPv4 NAT Customer Premises Equipment (6a44). R. Despres, Ed., B. Carpenter, D. Wing, S. Jiang. October 2012. (Format: TXT=73468 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 6757	Access Network Identifier (ANI) Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6. S. Gundavelli, Ed., J. Korhonen, Ed., M. Grayson, K. Leung, R. Pazhyannur. October 2012. (Format: TXT=43863 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6775	Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs). Z. Shelby, Ed., S. Chakrabarti, E. Nordmark, C. Bormann. November 2012. (Format: TXT=130616 bytes) (Updates RFC4944) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6782	Wireline Incremental IPv6. V. Kuarsingh, Ed., L. Howard. November 2012. (Format: TXT=71197 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6784	Kerberos Options for DHCPv6. S. Sakane, M. Ishiyama. November 2012. (Format: TXT=24110 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6791	Stateless Source Address Mapping for ICMPv6 Packets. X. Li, C. Bao, D. Wing, R. Vaithianathan, G. Huston. November 2012. (Format: TXT=11793 bytes) (Updates RFC6145) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6866	Problem Statement for Renumbering IPv6 Hosts with Static Addresses in Enterprise Networks. B. Carpenter, S. Jiang. February 2013. (Format: TXT=26524 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6874	Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers. B. Carpenter, S. Cheshire, R. Hinden. February 2013. (Format: TXT=19361 bytes) (Updates RFC3986) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6879	IPv6 Enterprise Network Renumbering Scenarios, Considerations, and Methods. S. Jiang, B. Liu, B. Carpenter. February 2013. (Format: TXT=38833 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6883	IPv6 Guidance for Internet Content Providers and Application Service Providers. B. Carpenter, S. Jiang. March 2013. (Format: TXT=60430 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6946	Processing of IPv6 "Atomic" Fragments. F. Gont. May 2013. (Format: TXT=18843 bytes) (Updates RFC2460, RFC5722) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6957	Duplicate Address Detection Proxy. F. Costa, J-M. Combes, Ed., X. Pougnard, H. Li. June 2013. (Format: TXT=32537 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 6964	Operational Guidance for IPv6 Deployment in IPv4 Sites Using the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP). F. Templin. May 2013. (Format: TXT=49568 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 6980	Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery. F. Gont. August 2013. (Format: TXT=20850 bytes) (Updates RFC3971, RFC4861) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7021	Assessing the Impact of Carrier-Grade NAT on Network Applications. C. Donley, Ed., L. Howard, V. Kuarsingh, J. Berg, J. Doshi. September 2013. (Format: TXT=66150 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7028	Multicast Mobility Routing Optimizations for Proxy Mobile IPv6. JC. Zuniga, LM. Contreras, CJ. Bernardos, S. Jeon, Y. Kim. September 2013. (Format: TXT=63110 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 7031	DHCPv6 Failover Requirements. T. Mrugalski, K. Kinnear. September 2013. (Format: TXT=39321 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7040	Public IPv4-over-IPv6 Access Network. Y. Cui, J. Wu, P. Wu, O. Vautrin, Y. Lee. November 2013. (Format: TXT=27273 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7045	Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension Headers. B. Carpenter, S. Jiang. December 2013. (Format: TXT=21852 bytes) (Updates RFC2460, RFC2780) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7050	Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis. T. Savolainen, J. Korhonen, D. Wing. November 2013. (Format: TXT=50097 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7051	Analysis of Solution Proposals for Hosts to Learn NAT64 Prefix. J. Korhonen, Ed., T. Savolainen, Ed.. November 2013. (Format: TXT=55248 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7059	A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms. S. Steffann, I. van Beijnum, R. van Rein. November 2013. (Format: TXT=98886 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7066	IPv6 for Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Cellular Hosts. J. Korhonen, Ed., J. Arkko, Ed., T. Savolainen, S. Krishnan. November 2013. (Format: TXT=44253 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3316) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7084	Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers. H. Singh, W. Beebee, C. Donley, B. Stark. November 2013. (Format: TXT=46569 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC6204) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7098	Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Load Balancing in Server Farms. B. Carpenter, S. Jiang, W. Tarreau. January 2014. (Format: TXT=30884 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7109	Flow Bindings Initiated by Home Agents for Mobile IPv6. H. Yokota, D. Kim, B. Sarikaya, F. Xia. February 2014. (Format: TXT=40637 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 7112	Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains. F. Gont, V. Manral, R. Bonica. January 2014. (Format: TXT=15897 bytes) (Updates RFC2460) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7125	Revision of the tcpControlBits IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Element. B. Trammell, P. Aitken. February 2014. (Format: TXT=11679 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7156	Diameter Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6 Localized Routing. G. Zorn, Q. Wu, J. Korhonen. April 2014. (Format: TXT=25657 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7157	IPv6 Multihoming without Network Address Translation. O. Troan, Ed., D. Miles, S. Matsushima, T. Okimoto, D. Wing. March 2014. (Format: TXT=49038 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7161	Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Multicast Handover Optimization by the Subscription Information Acquisition through the LMA (SIAL). LM. Contreras, CJ. Bernardos, I. Soto. March 2014. (Format: TXT=85916 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
RFC 7217	A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC). F. Gont. April 2014. (Format: TXT=48497 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7222	Quality-of-Service Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6. M. Liebsch, P. Seite, H. Yokota, J. Korhonen, S. Gundavelli. May 2014. (Format: TXT=139026 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7225	Discovering NAT64 IPv6 Prefixes Using the Port Control Protocol (PCP). M. Boucadair. May 2014. (Format: TXT=40239 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7269	NAT64 Deployment Options and Experience. G. Chen, Z. Cao, C. Xie, D. Binet. June 2014. (Format: TXT=56043 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7278	Extending an IPv6 /64 Prefix from a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Mobile Interface to a LAN Link. C. Byrne, D. Drown, A. Vizdal. June 2014. (Format: TXT=19965 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7343	An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers Version 2 (ORCHIDv2). J. Laganier, F. Dupont. September 2014. (Format: TXT=28699 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC4843) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7346	IPv6 Multicast Address Scopes. R. Droms. August 2014. (Format: TXT=10831 bytes) (Updates RFC4007, RFC4291) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7368	IPv6 Home Networking Architecture Principles. T. Chown, Ed., J. Arkko, A. Brandt, O. Troan, J. Weil. October 2014. (Format: TXT=125402 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7371	Updates to the IPv6 Multicast Addressing Architecture. M. Boucadair, S. Venaas. September 2014. (Format: TXT=18327 bytes) (Updates RFC3306, RFC3956, RFC4291) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7381	Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines. K. Chittimaneni, T. Chown, L. Howard, V. Kuarsingh, Y. Pouffary, E. Vyncke. October 2014. (Format: TXT=90299 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7388	Definition of Managed Objects for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs). J. Schoenwaelder, A. Sehgal, T. Tsou, C. Zhou. October 2014. (Format: TXT=53451 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7389	Separation of Control and User Plane for Proxy Mobile IPv6. R. Wakikawa, R. Pazhyannur, S. Gundavelli, C. Perkins. October 2014. (Format: TXT=26217 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7400	6LoWPAN-GHC: Generic Header Compression for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs). C. Bormann. November 2014. (Format: TXT=47533 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7400)
RFC 7404	Using Only Link-Local Addressing inside an IPv6 Network. M. Behringer, E. Vyncke. November 2014. (Format: TXT=24444 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7404)
RFC 7411	Multicast Listener Extensions for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Fast Handovers. T. Schmidt, Ed., M. Waehlisch, R. Koodli, G. Fairhurst, D. Liu. November 2014. (Format: TXT=72298 bytes) (Updates RFC5568) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7411)
RFC 7421	Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing. B. Carpenter, Ed., T. Chown, F. Gont, S. Jiang, A. Petrescu, A. Yourtchenko. January 2015. (Format: TXT=60469 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7428	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ITU-T G.9959 Networks. A. Brandt, J. Buron. February 2015. (Format: TXT=42657 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
RFC 7439	Gap Analysis for Operating IPv6-Only MPLS Networks. W. George, Ed., C. Pignataro, Ed.. January 2015. (Format: TXT=64087 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
RFC 7526	Deprecating the Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers. O. Troan, B. Carpenter, Ed.. May 2015. (Format: TXT=20894 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3068, RFC6732) (Also BCP0196) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7526)
RFC 7550	Issues and Recommendations with Multiple Stateful DHCPv6 Options. O. Troan, B. Volz, M. Siodelski. May 2015. (Format: TXT=54206 bytes) (Updates RFC3315, RFC3633) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7550)
RFC 7552	Updates to LDP for IPv6. R. Asati, C. Pignataro, K. Raza, V. Manral, R. Papneja. June 2015. (Format: TXT=48801 bytes) (Updates RFC5036, RFC6720) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7552)
RFC 7561	Mapping Quality of Service (QoS) Procedures of Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) and WLAN. J. Kaippallimalil, R. Pazhyannur, P. Yegani. June 2015. (Format: TXT=50348 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7561)
RFC 7563	Extensions to the Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Access Network Identifier Option. R. Pazhyannur, S. Speicher, S. Gundavelli, J. Korhonen, J. Kaippallimalil. June 2015. (Format: TXT=27982 bytes) (Updates RFC6757) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7563)
RFC 7596	Lightweight 4over6: An Extension to the Dual-Stack Lite Architecture. Y. Cui, Q. Sun, M. Boucadair, T. Tsou, Y. Lee, I. Farrer. July 2015. (Format: TXT=47038 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7596)
RFC 7597	Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E). O. Troan, Ed., W. Dec, X. Li, C. Bao, S. Matsushima, T. Murakami, T. Taylor, Ed.. July 2015. (Format: TXT=70507 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7597)
RFC 7598	DHCPv6 Options for Configuration of Softwire Address and Port-Mapped Clients. T. Mrugalski, O. Troan, I. Farrer, S. Perreault, W. Dec, C. Bao, L. Yeh, X. Deng. July 2015. (Format: TXT=40023 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7598)
RFC 7599	Mapping of Address and Port using Translation (MAP-T). X. Li, C. Bao, W. Dec, Ed., O. Troan, S. Matsushima, T. Murakami. July 2015. (Format: TXT=55548 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7599)
RFC 7600	IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A Stateless Solution (4rd). R. Despres, S. Jiang, Ed., R. Penno, Y. Lee, G. Chen, M. Chen. July 2015. (Format: TXT=96462 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7600)
RFC 7608	IPv6 Prefix Length Recommendation for Forwarding. M. Boucadair, A. Petrescu, F. Baker. July 2015. (Format: TXT=10818 bytes) (Also BCP0198) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7608)
RFC 7653	DHCPv6 Active Leasequery. D. Raghuvanshi, K. Kinnear, D. Kukrety. October 2015. (Format: TXT=71631 bytes) (Updates RFC5460) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7653)
RFC 7668	IPv6 over BLUETOOTH(R) Low Energy. J. Nieminen, T. Savolainen, M. Isomaki, B. Patil, Z. Shelby, C. Gomez. October 2015. (Format: TXT=52855 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7668)
RFC 7676	IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE). C. Pignataro, R. Bonica, S. Krishnan. October 2015. (Format: TXT=21622 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7676)
RFC 7678	Attribute-Value Pairs for Provisioning Customer Equipment Supporting IPv4-Over-IPv6 Transitional Solutions. C. Zhou, T. Taylor, Q. Sun, M. Boucadair. October 2015. (Format: TXT=49074 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7678)
RFC 7690	Close Encounters of the ICMP Type 2 Kind (Near Misses with ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB)). M. Byerly, M. Hite, J. Jaeggli. January 2016. (Format: TXT=19061 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7690)
RFC 7707	Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks. F. Gont, T. Chown. March 2016. (Format: TXT=88281 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC5157) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7707)
RFC 7721	Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms. A. Cooper, F. Gont, D. Thaler. March 2016. (Format: TXT=43381 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7721)
RFC 7755	SIIT-DC: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation for IPv6 Data Center Environments. T. Anderson. February 2016. (Format: TXT=54648 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7755)
RFC 7756	Stateless IP/ICMP Translation for IPv6 Internet Data Center Environments (SIIT-DC): Dual Translation Mode. T. Anderson, S. Steffann. February 2016. (Format: TXT=39291 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7756)
RFC 7757	Explicit Address Mappings for Stateless IP/ICMP Translation. T. Anderson, A. Leiva Popper. February 2016. (Format: TXT=40938 bytes) (Updates RFC6145) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7757)
RFC 7775	IS-IS Route Preference for Extended IP and IPv6 Reachability. L. Ginsberg, S. Litkowski, S. Previdi. February 2016. (Format: TXT=23624 bytes) (Updates RFC5308) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7775)
RFC 7794	IS-IS Prefix Attributes for Extended IPv4 and IPv6 Reachability. L. Ginsberg, Ed., B. Decraene, S. Previdi, X. Xu, U. Chunduri. March 2016. (Format: TXT=15925 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7794)
RFC 7837	IPv6 Destination Option for Congestion Exposure (ConEx). S. Krishnan, M. Kuehlewind, B. Briscoe, C. Ralli. May 2016. (Format: TXT=29708 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7837)
RFC 7849	An IPv6 Profile for 3GPP Mobile Devices. D. Binet, M. Boucadair, A. Vizdal, G. Chen, N. Heatley, R. Chandler, D. Michaud, D. Lopez, W. Haeffner. May 2016. (Format: TXT=51725 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7849)
RFC 7864	Proxy Mobile IPv6 Extensions to Support Flow Mobility. CJ. Bernardos, Ed.. May 2016. (Format: TXT=44225 bytes) (Updates RFC5213) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7864)
RFC 7872	Observations on the Dropping of Packets with IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World. F. Gont, J. Linkova, T. Chown, W. Liu. June 2016. (Format: TXT=30924 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7872)
RFC 7934	Host Address Availability Recommendations. L. Colitti, V. Cerf, S. Cheshire, D. Schinazi. July 2016. (Format: TXT=37124 bytes) (Also BCP0204) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7934)
RFC 7973	Assignment of an Ethertype for IPv6 with Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) Encapsulation. R. Droms, P. Duffy. November 2016. (Format: TXT=8208 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC7973)
RFC 8021	Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments Considered Harmful. F. Gont, W. Liu, T. Anderson. January 2017. (Format: TXT=25686 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8021)
RFC 8025	IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Paging Dispatch. P. Thubert, Ed., R. Cragie. November 2016. (Format: TXT=16342 bytes) (Updates RFC4944) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8025)
RFC 8043	Source-Address-Dependent Routing and Source Address Selection for IPv6 Hosts: Overview of the Problem Space. B. Sarikaya, M. Boucadair. January 2017. (Format: TXT=35213 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8043)
RFC 8064	Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers. F. Gont, A. Cooper, D. Thaler, W. Liu. February 2017. (Format: TXT=19179 bytes) (Updates RFC2464, RFC2467, RFC2470, RFC2491, RFC2492, RFC2497, RFC2590, RFC3146, RFC3572, RFC4291, RFC4338, RFC4391, RFC5072, RFC5121) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8064)
RFC 8065	Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Adaptation-Layer Mechanisms. D. Thaler. February 2017. (Format: TXT=22718 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8065)
RFC 8066	IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) ESC Dispatch Code Points and Guidelines. S. Chakrabarti, G. Montenegro, R. Droms, J. Woodyatt. February 2017. (Format: TXT=17494 bytes) (Updates RFC4944, RFC6282) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8066)
RFC 8096	The IPv6-Specific MIB Modules Are Obsolete. B. Fenner. April 2017. (Format: TXT=117298 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2452, RFC2454, RFC2465, RFC2466) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8096)
RFC 8105	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Ultra Low Energy (ULE). P. Mariager, J. Petersen, Ed., Z. Shelby, M. Van de Logt, D. Barthel. May 2017. (Format: TXT=49537 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8105)
RFC 8106	IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration. J. Jeong, S. Park, L. Beloeil, S. Madanapalli. March 2017. (Format: TXT=43092 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC6106) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8106)
RFC 8114	Delivery of IPv4 Multicast Services to IPv4 Clients over an IPv6 Multicast Network. M. Boucadair, C. Qin, C. Jacquenet, Y. Lee, Q. Wang. March 2017. (Format: TXT=47896 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8114)
RFC 8115	DHCPv6 Option for IPv4-Embedded Multicast and Unicast IPv6 Prefixes. M. Boucadair, J. Qin, T. Tsou, X. Deng. March 2017. (Format: TXT=17386 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8115)
RFC 8138	IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing Header. P. Thubert, Ed., C. Bormann, L. Toutain, R. Cragie. April 2017. (Format: TXT=81825 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8138)
RFC 8159	Keyed IPv6 Tunnel. M. Konstantynowicz, Ed., G. Heron, Ed., R. Schatzmayr, W. Henderickx. May 2017. (Format: TXT=27302 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8159)
RFC 8163	Transmission of IPv6 over Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) Networks. K. Lynn, Ed., J. Martocci, C. Neilson, S. Donaldson. May 2017. (Format: TXT=55845 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8163)
RFC 8191	Home Network Prefix Renumbering in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6). Z. Yan, J. Lee, X. Lee. August 2017. (Format: TXT=20719 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8191)
RFC 8200	Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. S. Deering, R. Hinden. July 2017. (Format: TXT=93658 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2460) (Also STD0086) (Status: INTERNET STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8200)
RFC 8201	Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6. J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul, R. Hinden, Ed.. July 2017. (Format: TXT=42751 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1981) (Also STD0087) (Status: INTERNET STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8201)
RFC 8215	Local-Use IPv4/IPv6 Translation Prefix. T. Anderson. August 2017. (Format: TXT=14846 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8215)
RFC 8219	Benchmarking Methodology for IPv6 Transition Technologies. M. Georgescu, L. Pislaru, G. Lencse. August 2017. (Format: TXT=66085 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8219)
RFC 8250	IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics (PDM) Destination Option. N. Elkins, R. Hamilton, M. Ackermann. September 2017. (Format: TXT=65231 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8250)
RFC 8273	Unique IPv6 Prefix per Host. J. Brzozowski, G. Van de Velde. December 2017. (Format: TXT=22867 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8273)
RFC 8354	Use Cases for IPv6 Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING). J. Brzozowski, J. Leddy, C. Filsfils, R. Maglione, Ed., M. Townsley. March 2018. (Format: TXT=18271 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8354)
RFC 8369	Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode. H. Kaplan. 1 April 2018. (Format: TXT=24429 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8369)
RFC 8371	Mobile Node Identifier Types for MIPv6. C. Perkins, V. Devarapalli. July 2018. (Format: TXT=34580 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8371)
RFC 8585	Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers to Support IPv4-as-a-Service. J. Palet Martinez, H. M.-H. Liu, M. Kawashima. May 2019. (Format: TXT=49405, HTML=0 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC8585)

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