2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
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This document specifies version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6), also sometimes referred to as IP Next Generation or IPng.
Status DRAFT STANDARD
Format TXT=85490 bytes
Authors
R. Hinden
Date December 1998
Keyphrases IPv6 header fragment packet
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Referenced by
- RFC2393: IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp).
- RFC2450: Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rule.
- RFC2452: IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol.
- RFC2454: IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol.
- RFC2461: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6).
- RFC2463: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
- RFC2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks.
- RFC2465: Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group.
- RFC2466: Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group.
- RFC2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks.
- RFC2470: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks.
- RFC2472: IP Version 6 over
- RFC2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification.
- RFC2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers.
- RFC2491: IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks.
- RFC2497: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks.
- RFC2507: IP Header Compression.
- RFC2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses.
- RFC2529: Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels.
- RFC2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing.
- RFC2553: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6.
- RFC2590: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification.
- RFC2675: IPv6 Jumbograms.
- RFC2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6.
- RFC2711: IPv6 Router Alert Option.
- RFC2730: Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP).
- RFC2740: OSPF for IPv6.
- RFC2765: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT).
- RFC2767: Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS).
- RFC2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers.
- RFC2828: Internet Security Glossary.
- RFC2873: TCP Processing of the IPv4 Precedence Field.
- RFC2885: Megaco Protocol version 0.8.
- RFC2893: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers.
- RFC2894: Router Renumbering for IPv6.
- RFC2909: The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol.
- RFC2928: Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments.
- RFC2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol.
- RFC3002: Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop.
- RFC3015: Megaco Protocol Version 1.0.
- RFC3021: Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links.
- RFC3033: The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol.
- RFC3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds.
- RFC3089: A SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Gateway Mechanism.
- RFC3095: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP, UDP, ESP, and uncompressed.
- RFC3122: Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification.
- RFC3146: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks.
- RFC3162: RADIUS and IPv6.
- RFC3164: The BSD Syslog Protocol.
- RFC3169: Criteria for Evaluating Network Access Server Protocols.
- RFC3173: IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp).
- RFC3221: Commentary on Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet.
- RFC3242: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): A Link-Layer Assisted Profile for IP/UDP/RTP.
- RFC3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport.
- RFC3269: Author Guidelines for Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) Building Blocks and Protocol Instantiation documents.
- RFC3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses.
- RFC3314: Recommendations for IPv6 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Standards.
- RFC3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6).
- RFC3316: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Some Second and Third Generation Cellular Hosts.
- RFC3338: Dual Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-API" (BIA).
- RFC3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks.
- RFC3493: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6.
- RFC3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture.
- RFC3514: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header.
- RFC3525: Gateway Control Protocol Version 1.
- RFC3542: Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6.
- RFC3572: Internet Protocol Version 6 over MAPOS (Multiple Access Protocol Over SONET/SDH).
- RFC3582: Goals for IPv6 Site-Multihoming Architectures.
- RFC3587: IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format.
- RFC3595: Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label.
- RFC3633: IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6.
- RFC3675: .sex Considered Dangerous.
- RFC3684: Topology Dissemination Based on Reverse-Path Forwarding (TBRPF).
- RFC3697: IPv6 Flow Label Specification.
- RFC3736: Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6.
- RFC3750: Unmanaged Networks IPv6 Transition Scenarios.
- RFC3753: Mobility Related Terminology.
- RFC3769: Requirements for IPv6 Prefix Delegation.
- RFC3775: Mobility Support in IPv6.
- RFC3776: Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling Between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents.
- RFC3790: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Internet Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
- RFC3794: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Transport Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
- RFC3810: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6.
- RFC3814: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding Equivalence Class To Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (FEC-To-NHLFE) Management Information Base (MIB).
- RFC3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers.
- RFC3828: The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite).
- RFC3831: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Fibre Channel.
- RFC3843: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): A Compression Profile for
- RFC3890: A Transport Independent Bandwidth Modifier for the Session Description Protocol (SDP).
- RFC3901: DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines.
- RFC3904: Evaluation of IPv6 Transition Mechanisms for Unmanaged Networks.
- RFC3919: Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Protocol Identifiers for IPv6 and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
- RFC3954: Cisco Systems NetFlow Services Export Version 9.
- RFC3963: Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support Protocol.
- RFC3973: Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised).
- RFC4001: Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses.
- RFC4007: IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture.
- RFC4019: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Profiles for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Lite.
- RFC4023: Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE).
- RFC4035: Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions.
- RFC4038: Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition.
- RFC4149: Definition of Managed Objects for Synthetic Sources for Performance Monitoring Algorithms.
- RFC4192: Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day.
- RFC4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses.
- RFC4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers.
- RFC4214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP).
- RFC4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture.
- RFC4294: IPv6 Node Requirements.
- RFC4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol.
- RFC4302: IP Authentication Header.
- RFC4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP).
- RFC4330: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and
- RFC4338: Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel.
- RFC4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP).
- RFC4362: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): A Link-Layer Assisted Profile for IP/UDP/RTP.
- RFC4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs).
- RFC4385: Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Control Word for Use over an MPLS
- RFC4391: Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB).
- RFC4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
- RFC4459: MTU and Fragmentation Issues with In-the-Network Tunneling.
- RFC4497: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and
- RFC4513: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Authentication Methods and Security Mechanisms.
- RFC4540: NEC's Simple Middlebox Configuration (SIMCO) Protocol Version 3.0.
- RFC4560: Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations.
- RFC4584: Extension to Sockets API for Mobile IPv6.
- RFC4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised).
- RFC4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents.
- RFC4620: IPv6 Node Information Queries.
- RFC4659: BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6
- RFC4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers.
- RFC4737: Packet Reordering Metrics.