RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6

This document specifies Mobile IPv6, a protocol that allows nodes to remain reachable while moving around in the IPv6 Internet. Each mobile node is always…

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Outgoing relationships (35 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 3775: Mobility Support in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4033: DNS Security Introduction and Requirements
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Normative reference — RFC 2782: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)
Normative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 5996: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Normative reference — RFC 2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
Normative reference — RFC 3776: Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling Between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents
Normative reference — RFC 4877: Mobile IPv6 Operation with IKEv2 and the Revised IPsec Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 5026: Mobile IPv6 Bootstrapping in Split Scenario
Informative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 1700: Assigned Numbers
Informative reference — RFC 3810: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 2003: IP Encapsulation within IP
Informative reference — RFC 3484: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 3753: Mobility Related Terminology
Informative reference — RFC 6194: Security Considerations for the SHA-0 and SHA-1 Message-Digest Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 3232: Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Replaced by an On-line Database
Informative reference — RFC 2004: Minimal Encapsulation within IP
Informative reference — RFC 5095: Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 5944: IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised
Informative reference — RFC 4225: Mobile IP Version 6 Route Optimization Security Design Background
Informative reference — RFC 5014: IPv6 Socket API for Source Address Selection
Informative reference — RFC 3627: Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful

Incoming relationships (40 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6550: RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6830: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7028: Multicast Mobility Routing Optimizations for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6611: Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) Bootstrapping for the Integrated Scenario
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6705: Localized Routing for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6757: Access Network Identifier (ANI) Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6276: DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for Network Mobility (NEMO)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6475: Proxy Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6610: DHCP Options for Home Information Discovery in Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6674: Gateway-Initiated Dual-Stack Lite Deployment
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6909: IPv4 Traffic Offload Selector Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8885: Proxy Mobile IPv6 Extensions for Distributed Mobility Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9288: Recommendations on the Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers at Transit Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9299: An Architectural Introduction to the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6602: Bulk Binding Update Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6612: Interactions between Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) and Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6): Scenarios and Related Issues
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6618: Mobile IPv6 Security Framework Using Transport Layer Security for Communication between the Mobile Node and Home Agent
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6629: Considerations on the Application of the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (Shim6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7109: Flow Bindings Initiated by Home Agents for Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7148: Prefix Delegation Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7161: Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Multicast Handover Optimization by the Subscription Information Acquisition through the LMA (SIAL)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7287: Mobile Multicast Sender Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8818: Distributed Mobility Anchoring
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9365: IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem Statement and Use Cases
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6724: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6740: Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) Architectural Description
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6636: Tuning the Behavior of the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for Routers in Mobile and Wireless Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6957: Duplicate Address Detection Proxy
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7010: IPv6 Site Renumbering Gap Analysis
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7094: Architectural Considerations of IP Anycast
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7430: Analysis of Residual Threats and Possible Fixes for Multipath TCP (MPTCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7847: Logical-Interface Support for IP Hosts with Multi-Access Support
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9601: Propagating Explicit Congestion Notification across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6538: The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Experiment Report
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7604: Comparison of Different NAT Traversal Techniques for Media Controlled by the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9762: Using Router Advertisements to Signal the Availability of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation to Clients