RFC 5453: Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers

Interface identifiers in IPv6 unicast addresses are used to identify interfaces on a link. They are required to be unique within a subnet. Several RFCs have…

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Outgoing relationships (13 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
Informative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 5072: IP Version 6 over PPP
Informative reference — RFC 5156: Special-Use IPv6 Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 2590: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification
Informative reference — RFC 4982: Support for Multiple Hash Algorithms in Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGAs)
Informative reference — RFC 4489: A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses

Incoming relationships (7 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7136: Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7943: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers (IIDs) with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6543: Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifier for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)