RFC 6177: IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites

RFC 3177 argued that in IPv6, end sites should be assigned /48 blocks in most cases. The Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) adopted that recommendation in…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 3177: IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites
Informative reference — RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
Informative reference — RFC 3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7084: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6741: Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) Engineering Considerations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7871: Client Subnet in DNS Queries
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6748: Optional Advanced Deployment Scenarios for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6740: Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) Architectural Description
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9818: DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation on IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Routers in LANs