IPv6 notes

RFC'er

Addressering

• rfc2374 An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• rfc1377 IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc6177 IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites
• rfc2373 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc3513 Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture (Obsoleted)
    • Obsoleted by rfc4291 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (Updated)
      • Updated by rfc5952 A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation and rfc6052 IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators

Multicast adresser

rfc4291 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture defines new flags in rfc3306 Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses and rfc3956 Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address

Allocation of IP addresses to End-Sites

• See rfc6177 IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites
  • Section 2 on /48 and /56's

ICMPv6

• rfc2463 ICMPv6 for the IPv6 Specification (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4443 ICMPv6 for the IPv6 Specification (Updated)
    • Updated by rfc4884 Extended ICMP to Support Multi-Part Messages

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

• rfc2461 Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4861 Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) (Updated)
    • Updated by rfc5942 Pv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes