RFC 6296: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation

This document describes a stateless, transport-agnostic IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) function that provides the address-independence…

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Outgoing relationships (27 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Normative reference — RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Informative reference — RFC 5389: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Informative reference — RFC 6146: Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
Informative reference — RFC 5245: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 5996: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Informative reference — RFC 5766: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 3484: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 6052: IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators
Informative reference — RFC 6147: DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
Informative reference — RFC 6145: IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 3424: IAB Considerations for UNilateral Self-Address Fixing (UNSAF) Across Network Address Translation
Informative reference — RFC 1071: Computing the Internet checksum
Informative reference — RFC 6144: Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation
Informative reference — RFC 6092: Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service
Informative reference — RFC 2993: Architectural Implications of NAT
Informative reference — RFC 4864: Local Network Protection for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 1624: Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update
Informative reference — RFC 6204: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Informative reference — RFC 5902: IAB Thoughts on IPv6 Network Address Translation

Incoming relationships (18 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7157: IPv6 Multihoming without Network Address Translation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8678: Enterprise Multihoming using Provider-Assigned IPv6 Addresses without Network Prefix Translation: Requirements and Solutions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7665: Service Function Chaining (SFC) Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7285: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6748: Optional Advanced Deployment Scenarios for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6732: 6to4 Provider Managed Tunnels
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8782: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8801: Discovering Provisioning Domain Names and Data
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8803: 0-RTT TCP Convert Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7098: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Load Balancing in Server Farms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7620: Scenarios with Host Identification Complications
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6629: Considerations on the Application of the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (Shim6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7974: An Experimental TCP Option for Host Identification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9710: Simple Fixes to the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities IANA Registry