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 "IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes"

Stateless Autoconfiguration

• rfc2462 "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" (Obsoleted)
  • rfc4862 "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration"

DHCPv6

• rfc3315 "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)" (Updated)
  • Updated by rfc4361 "Node-specific Client Identifiers for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version Four (DHCPv4)" (Updated)
    • Update4d by rfc5494 "IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)"
  • Updated by rfc6221 "Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent"

Routing

BGP

• rfc1771 "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by rfc4271 "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)"
• rfc2858 "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4" (Obsoleted)
  • Obsoleted by [1] "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4"

Tunneling IPv6 over IPv4

ISATAP

• rfc5214 "Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)"