RFC 7136: Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers

The IPv6 addressing architecture includes a unicast interface identifier that is used in the creation of many IPv6 addresses. Interface identifiers are formed…

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Outgoing relationships (19 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 7042: IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters
Normative reference — RFC 5453: Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Informative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
Informative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6052: IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators
Informative reference — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Informative reference — RFC 5214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
Informative reference — RFC 3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 3307: Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 5535: Hash-Based Addresses (HBA)
Informative reference — RFC 6741: Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) Engineering Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 6164: Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
Informative reference — RFC 4982: Support for Multiple Hash Algorithms in Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGAs)
Informative reference — RFC 6957: Duplicate Address Detection Proxy

Incoming relationships (15 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7707: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7668: IPv6 over BLUETOOTH(R) Low Energy
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8105: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Ultra Low Energy (ULE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8163: Transmission of IPv6 over Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7943: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers (IIDs) with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9354: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Power Line Communication (PLC) Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9363: A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8136: Additional Transition Functionality for IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9428: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Near Field Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8724: SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7576: General Gap Analysis for Autonomic Networking
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7600: IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A Stateless Solution (4rd)