RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

This document specifies version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). It obsoletes RFC 2460.

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 1883: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Informative reference — RFC 7045: Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension Headers
Informative reference — RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets
Informative reference — RFC 7112: Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains
Informative reference — RFC 5871: IANA Allocation Guidelines for the IPv6 Routing Header

Incoming relationships (78 related RFCs)

Showing 50 of 78 related RFCs.

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9673: IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options Processing Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8402: Segment Routing Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8754: IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8899: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for Datagram Transports
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9260: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8926: Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8939: Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane: IP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9132: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9300: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8724: SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9008: Using RPI Option Type, Routing Header for Source Routes, and IPv6-in-IPv6 Encapsulation in the RPL Data Plane
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9010: Routing for RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) Leaves
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8489: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8250: IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics (PDM) Destination Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8656: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8931: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment Recovery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8304: Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8956: Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9343: IPv6 Application of the Alternate-Marking Method
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9633: Deterministic Networking (DetNet) YANG Data Model
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9487: Export of Segment Routing over IPv6 Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9491: Integration of the Network Service Header (NSH) and Segment Routing for Service Function Chaining (SFC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9568: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9692: RIFT: Routing in Fat Trees
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9777: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8883: ICMPv6 Errors for Discarding Packets Due to Processing Limits
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9288: Recommendations on the Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers at Transit Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9363: A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9715: IP Fragmentation Avoidance in DNS over UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9790: IANA Registry and Processing Recommendations for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9800: Compressed SRv6 Segment List Encoding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8350: Alternate Tunnel Encapsulation for Data Frames in Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9268: IPv6 Minimum Path MTU Hop-by-Hop Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9414: Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9415: On the Generation of Transient Numeric Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9428: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Near Field Communication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9453: Applicability and Use Cases for IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6lo)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9511: Attribution of Internet Probes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9631: The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9685: Listener Subscription for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast and Anycast Addresses
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9760: Enterprise Profile for the Precision Time Protocol with Mixed Multicast and Unicast Messages
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9805: Deprecation of the IPv6 Router Alert Option for New Protocols