RFC 9386: IPv6 Deployment Status

This document provides an overview of the status of IPv6 deployment in 2022. Specifically, it looks at the degree of adoption of IPv6 in the industry,…

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Outgoing relationships (30 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Normative reference — RFC 6036: Emerging Service Provider Scenarios for IPv6 Deployment
Normative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Normative reference — RFC 3971: SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)
Normative reference — RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Normative reference — RFC 3756: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats
Normative reference — RFC 6333: Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion
Normative reference — RFC 6877: 464XLAT: Combination of Stateful and Stateless Translation
Normative reference — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems
Normative reference — RFC 7597: Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E)
Normative reference — RFC 7596: Lightweight 4over6: An Extension to the Dual-Stack Lite Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 6540: IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes
Normative reference — RFC 7599: Mapping of Address and Port using Translation (MAP-T)
Normative reference — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6180: Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms during IPv6 Deployment
Normative reference — RFC 6883: IPv6 Guidance for Internet Content Providers and Application Service Providers
Normative reference — RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Normative reference — RFC 8950: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop
Normative reference — RFC 9313: Pros and Cons of IPv6 Transition Technologies for IPv4-as-a-Service (IPv4aaS)
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 8415: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 5095: Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
Informative reference — RFC 8981: Temporary Address Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6264: An Incremental Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) for IPv6 Transition
Informative reference — RFC 8064: Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Informative reference — RFC 7872: Observations on the Dropping of Packets with IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World
Informative reference — RFC 6980: Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 9098: Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets with Extension Headers
Informative reference — RFC 8683: Additional Deployment Guidelines for NAT64/464XLAT in Operator and Enterprise Networks

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 10001: Operational Guidelines for DNS Transport in Mixed IPv4/IPv6 Environments