RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture

This specification defines the addressing architecture of the IP Version 6 (IPv6) protocol. The document includes the IPv6 addressing model, text…

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Outgoing relationships (12 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 2402: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 1519: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
Informative reference — RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
Informative reference — RFC 3041: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 3956: Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address
Informative reference — RFC 2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks
Informative reference — RFC 3587: IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
Informative reference — RFC 4038: Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition
Informative reference — RFC 3879: Deprecating Site Local Addresses

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Updated by — RFC 5952: A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation
Updated by — RFC 6052: IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7136: Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8064: Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7346: IPv6 Multicast Address Scopes
Updated by — RFC 7371: Updates to the IPv6 Multicast Addressing Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5213: Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5996: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6733: Diameter Base Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5424: The Syslog Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6296: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5444: Generalized Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Packet/Message Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5798: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7637: NVGRE: Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5072: IP Version 6 over PPP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4704: The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Client Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9260: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4903: Multi-Link Subnet Issues
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4942: IPv6 Transition/Co-existence Security Considerations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4795: Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5059: Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6021: Common YANG Data Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6742: DNS Resource Records for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9082: Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Query Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5453: Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6164: Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7788: Home Networking Control Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8915: Network Time Security for the Network Time Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9462: Discovery of Designated Resolvers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9525: Service Identity in TLS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7482: Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Query Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7668: IPv6 over BLUETOOTH(R) Low Energy
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9911: Common YANG Data Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5549: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5569: IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5665: IANA Considerations for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Network Identifiers and Universal Address Formats
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5739: IPv6 Configuration in Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5782: DNS Blacklists and Whitelists