RFC 9872: Recommendations for Discovering IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis

On networks providing IPv4-IPv6 translation (RFC 7915), hosts and other endpoints need to know the IPv6 prefix(es) used for translation (the NAT64 prefix (RFC…

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Outgoing relationships (19 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 7050: Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis
Normative reference — RFC 8781: Discovering PREF64 in Router Advertisements
Informative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 6146: Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
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 9499: DNS Terminology
Informative reference — RFC 6105: IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard
Informative reference — RFC 6144: Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation
Informative reference — RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
Informative reference — RFC 6877: 464XLAT: Combination of Stateful and Stateless Translation
Informative reference — RFC 9463: DHCP and Router Advertisement Options for the Discovery of Network-designated Resolvers (DNR)
Informative reference — RFC 7915: IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 7225: Discovering NAT64 IPv6 Prefixes Using the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Informative reference — RFC 7051: Analysis of Solution Proposals for Hosts to Learn NAT64 Prefix
Informative reference — RFC 8880: Special Use Domain Name 'ipv4only.arpa'

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

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