RFC 7707: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks

IPv6 offers a much larger address space than that of its IPv4 counterpart. An IPv6 subnet of size /64 can (in theory) accommodate approximately 1.844 * 10^19…

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Outgoing relationships (23 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 5157: IPv6 Implications for Network Scanning
Normative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Normative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Normative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)
Normative reference — RFC 6724: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Normative reference — RFC 5214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
Normative reference — RFC 7012: Information Model for IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
Normative reference — RFC 7136: Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normative reference — RFC 6620: FCFS SAVI: First-Come, First-Served Source Address Validation Improvement for Locally Assigned IPv6 Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Informative reference — RFC 7721: Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
Informative reference — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems
Informative reference — RFC 4890: Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls
Informative reference — RFC 4795: Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)
Informative reference — RFC 7719: DNS Terminology
Informative reference — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Informative reference — RFC 5375: IPv6 Unicast Address Assignment Considerations

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7721: Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7943: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers (IIDs) with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9526: Simple Provisioning of Public Names for Residential Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9243: A YANG Data Model for DHCPv6 Configuration
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9414: Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9415: On the Generation of Transient Numeric Identifiers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9416: Security Considerations for Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network Protocols