RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing

The IPv6 unicast addressing format includes a separation between the prefix used to route packets to a subnet and the interface identifier used to specify a…

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Outgoing relationships (57 related RFCs)

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Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 3810: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 7296: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Normative reference — RFC 6146: Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
Normative reference — RFC 3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
Normative reference — RFC 3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
Normative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Normative reference — RFC 4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)
Normative reference — RFC 4944: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
Normative reference — RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6052: IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators
Normative reference — RFC 4191: Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
Normative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Normative reference — RFC 5214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
Normative reference — RFC 5969: IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd) -- Protocol Specification
Normative reference — RFC 3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 6296: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
Normative reference — RFC 2529: Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels
Normative reference — RFC 7136: Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normative reference — RFC 3956: Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address
Normative reference — RFC 4429: Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 5533: Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 7084: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normative reference — RFC 5072: IP Version 6 over PPP
Normative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 5535: Hash-Based Addresses (HBA)
Normative reference — RFC 2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6177: IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites
Normative reference — RFC 2470: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks
Normative reference — RFC 5453: Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normative reference — RFC 6164: Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
Normative reference — RFC 2492: IPv6 over ATM Networks
Normative reference — RFC 2590: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4338: Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel
Normative reference — RFC 5121: Transmission of IPv6 via the IPv6 Convergence Sublayer over IEEE 802.16 Networks
Normative reference — RFC 5942: IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes
Normative reference — RFC 3146: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks
Normative reference — RFC 3590: Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2497: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks
Normative reference — RFC 5692: Transmission of IP over Ethernet over IEEE 802.16 Networks
Informative reference — RFC 3756: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats
Informative reference — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Informative reference — RFC 2629: Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML
Informative reference — RFC 6877: 464XLAT: Combination of Stateful and Stateless Translation
Informative reference — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7707: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8065: Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Adaptation-Layer Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7608: IPv6 Prefix Length Recommendation for Forwarding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8136: Additional Transition Functionality for IPv6