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IPv6 Standards

IPv6 is defined in the following documents:

  • RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
  • RFC 2373, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
  • RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6)
  • RFC 2461, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6
  • RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Auto configuration
  • RFC 2463, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6
  • RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
  • RFC 2472, IP Version 6 over PPP
  • RFC 2474, Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
  • RFC 2675, IPv6 Jumbo grams
  • RFC 2767, Dual Stack Hosts using the “Bump-In-the-Stack” Technique (BIS)
  • RFC 2878, PPP Bridging Control Protocol
  • RFC 2893, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-16.txt, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (expires May 2001)
  • Internet draft draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-00.txt, BGP4+ Peering Using IPv6 Link-local Address (expires April 2002)
  • Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-00.txt, Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules

To access Internet Requests for Comments (RFCs) and drafts, see http://www.ietf.org.

Published: 2012-12-08

Supported Platforms

Published: 2012-12-08