RFCs
Last updates up to December 28th 2011 (We thanks Jorge Villa for this contribution)
- RFC6438 Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in Tunnels
- RFC6437 IPv6 Flow Label Specification (Elimina RFC3697, Actualiza RFC2205, RFC2460)
- RFC6436 Rationale for Update to the IPv6 Flow Label Specification
- RFC6434 IPv6 Node Requirements (Elimina RFC4294)
- RFC6431 Huawei Port Range Configuration Options for PPP IP Control Protocol (IPCP)
- RFC6384 An FTP Application Layer Gateway (ALG) for IPv6-to-IPv4 Translation
- RFC6343 Advisory Guidelines for 6to4 Deployment
- RFC6342 Mobile Networks Considerations for IPv6 Deployment (Obsoletes RFC6312)
- RFC6334 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Option for Dual-Stack Lite
- RFC6324 Routing Loop Attack Using IPv6 Automatic Tunnels: Problem Statement and Proposed Mitigations
- RFC6296 IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
- RFC6294 Survey of Proposed Use Cases for the IPv6 Flow Label
- RFC6282 Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
- RFC6279 Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Localized Routing Problem Statement
- RFC6276 DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for Network Mobility (NEMO)
- RFC6275 Mobility Support in IPv6
- RFC6264 An Incremental Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) for IPv6 Transition
- RFC6250 Evolution of the IP Model
- RFC6224 Base Deployment for Multicast Listener Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6)Domains
- RFC6221 Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent (Actualiza RFC3315) Errata
- RFC6219 The China Education and Research Network (CERNET) IVI Translation Design and Deployment for the IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence and Transition
- RFC6214 Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6
- RFC6204 Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
- RFC6180 Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms during IPv6 Deployment
- RFC6179 The Internet Routing Overlay Network (IRON)
- RFC6177/ BCP0157 IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites (Elimina RFC3177)
- RFC6164 Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links
- RFC6157 IPv6 Transition in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (Actualiza RFC3264)
- RFC6156 Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extension for IPv6
- RFC6147 DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
- RFC6146 Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
- RFC6145 IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (Elimina RFC2765)
- RFC6144 Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation
- RFC6139 Routing and Addressing in Networks with Global Enterprise Recursion (RANGER)
- RFC6127 IPv4 Run-Out and IPv4-IPv6 Co-Existence Scenarios
- RFC6119 IPv6 Traffic Engineering in IS-IS
- RFC6106 IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration (Elimina RFC5006)
- RFC6105 IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard
- RFC6104 Rogue IPv6 Router Advertisement Problem Statement
- RFC6097 Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) Discovery for Proxy Mobile IPv6
- RFC6092 Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service
- RFC6089 Flow Bindings in Mobile IPv6 and Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support (Actualiza RFC5648)
- RFC6088 Traffic Selectors for Flow Bindings
- RFC6085 Address Mapping of IPv6 Multicast Packets on Ethernet (Actualiza RFC2464)
- RFC6081 Teredo Extensions (Actualiza RFC4380) Errata
- RFC6059 Simple Procedures for Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6
- RFC6058 Transient Binding for Proxy Mobile IPv6
- RFC6052 IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators (Actualiza RFC4291)
- RFC6036 Emerging Service Provider Scenarios for IPv6 Deployment
- RFC6018 IPv4 and IPv6 Greynets
- RFC5991 Teredo Security (Actualiza RFC4380)
- RFC5970 DHCPv6 Options for Network
- RFC5969 IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd)
- RFC5963 IPv6 Deployment in Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
- RFC5954 Essential Correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI Comparison in RFC 3261 (Actualiza RFC3261)
- RFC5952 A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation (Actualiza RFC4291)
- RFC5949 Fast Handovers for Proxy Mobile IPv6
- RFC5942 IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes (Actualiza RFC4861)
- RFC5908 Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server Option for DHCPv6
- RFC5902 IAB Thoughts on IPv6 Network Address Translation
- RFC5881 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
- RFC5871 IANA Allocation Guidelines for the IPv6 Routing Header (Actualiza RFC2460)
- RFC5855/BCP0155 Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones
- RFC5847 Heartbeat Mechanism for Proxy Mobile IPv6
- RFC5846 Binding Revocation for IPv6 Mobility
- RFC5845 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Key Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6
- RFC5844 IPv4 Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6
Last updates up to Abril 29th 2010
- RFC5798: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
- RFC5779: Diameter Proxy Mobile IPv6: Mobile Access Gateway and Local Mobility Anchor Interaction with Diameter Server
- RFC5778: Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Home Agent to Diameter Server Interaction
- RFC5747: 4over6 Transit Solution Using IP Encapsulation and MP-BGP Extensions
- RFC5739: IPv6 Configuration in Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
- RFC5726: Mobile IPv6 Location Privacy Solutions
- RFC5722: Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments
- RFC5701: IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute
- RFC5643: Management Information Base for OSPFv3
- RFC5637: Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Goals for Mobile IPv6
- RFC5619: Softwire Security Analysis and Requirements
- RFC5579: Transmission of IPv4 Packets over Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) Interfaces
- RFC5572: IPv6 Tunnel Broker with the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP)
- RFC5570: Common Architecture Label IPv6 Security Option (CALIPSO) / Errata
- RFC5568: Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers (Elimina RFC5268) / Errata
- RFC5555: Mobile IPv6 Support for Dual Stack Hosts and Routers / Errata
- RFC5549: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
- RFC5534: Failure Detection and Locator Pair Exploration Protocol for IPv6 Multihoming
- RFC5533: Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6
- RFC5514: IPv6 over Social Networks / Errata
- RFC5460: DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery
- RFC5454: Dual-Stack Mobile IPv4 / Errata
- RFC5453: Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers
- RFC5447: Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Network Access Server to Diameter Server Interaction / Errata
- RFC5419: Why the Authentication Data Suboption is Needed for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6)
- RFC5380: Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) Mobility Management (Elimina RFC4140)
- RFC5375: IPv6 Unicast Address Assignment Considerations
- RFC5350: IANA Considerations for the IPv4 and IPv6 Router Alert Options (Actualiza RFC2113, RFC3175)
Last updates up to August, 2008, still without classification
- RFC5340: OSPF for IPv6 (Elimina RFC2740)
- RFC5271: Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G CDMA Networks
- RFC5270: Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers over IEEE 802.16e Networks
- RFC5269: Distributing a Symmetric Fast Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) Handover Key Using SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)
- RFC5268: Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers (Elimina RFC4068)
- RFC5214: Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) (Elimina RFC4214)
- RFC5213: Proxy Mobile IPv6)
- RFC5210: A Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA) Testbed and Deployment Experience
- RFC5181: IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in 802.16 Networks
- RFC5175: IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option (Elimina RFC5075)
- RFC5172: Negotiation for IPv6 Datagram Compression Using IPv6 Control Protocol (Elimina RFC2472)
- RFC5157: IPv6 Implications for Network Scanning
- RFC5156: Special-Use IPv6 Addresses
- RFC5149: Service Selection for Mobile IPv6
- RFC5121: Transmission of IPv6 via the IPv6 Convergence Sublayer over IEEE 802.16 Networks
- RFC5118: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Torture Test Messages for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- RFC5118 (Errata): Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Torture Test Messages for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- RFC5096: Mobile IPv6 Experimental Messages
- RFC5095: Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6 (Actualiza RFC2460 y RFC4294)
- RFC5094: Mobile IPv6 Vendor Specific Option
- RFC5072: IP Version 6 over PPP (Elimina RFC2472)
- RFC5026: Mobile IPv6 Bootstrapping in Split Scenario
- RFC5014: IPv6 Socket API for Source Address Selection
- RFC5007: DHCPv6 Leasequery
- RFC5006: IPv6 Router Advertisement Option for DNS Configuration
- RFC4980: Analysis of Multihoming in Network Mobility Support
- RFC4968: Analysis of IPv6 Link Models for 802.16 Based Networks
- RFC4968 (Errata): Analysis of IPv6 Link Models for 802.16 Based Networks
- RFC4944: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
- RFC4943: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery On-Link Assumption Considered Harmful
- RFC4942: IPv6 Transition/Co-existence Security Considerations
- RFC4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 (Elimina RFC3041)
- RFC4941 (Errata): Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
General
- RFC2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
- RFC2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
- RFC4773: Administration of the IANA Special Purpose IPv6 Address Block
- RFC4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers
- RFC4692: Considerations on the IPv6 Host Density Metric
- RFC4311: IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing
- RFC4219: Things Multihoming in IPv6 (MULTI6) Developers Should Think About
- RFC4218: Threats Relating to IPv6 Multihoming Solutions
- RFC4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
- RFC4177: Architectural Approaches to Multi-homing for IPv6
- RFC4159: Deprecation of ip6.int
- RFC4147: Proposed Changes to the Format of the IANA IPv6 Registry
- RFC4007: IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture
- RFC3879: Deprecating Site Local Addresses
- RFC3849: IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation
- RFC3769: Requirements for IPv6 Prefix Delegation
- RFC3701: 6bone (IPv6 Testing Address Allocation) Phaseout
- RFC3697: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
- RFC3627: Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful
- RFC3595: Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label
- RFC3587: IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
- RFC3582: Goals for IPv6 Site-Multihoming Architectures
- RFC3178: IPv6 Multihoming Support at Site Exit Routers
- RFC2894: Router Renumbering for IPv6
- RFC1809: Using the Flow Label Field in IPv6
Transition
- RFC4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Router
- RFC4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)
- RFC3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
- RFC4554: Use of VLANs for IPv4-IPv6 Coexistence in Enterprise Networks
- RFC4241: A Model of IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Internet Access Service
- RFC4215: Analysis on IPv6 Transition in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Networks
- RFC4057: IPv6 Enterprise Network Scenarios
- RFC4038: Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition
- RFC4029: Scenarios and Analysis for Introducing IPv6 into ISP Networks
- RFC3904: Evaluation of IPv6 Transition Mechanisms for Unmanaged Networks
- RFC3750: Unmanaged Networks IPv6 Transition Scenarios:
- RFC3574: Transition Scenarios for 3GPP Networks
- RFC3053: IPv6 Tunnel Broker
- RFC2767: Dual Stack Hosts using the Bump-In-the-Stack Technique (BIS)
- RFC2529: Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels
- RFC2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6
Routing
- RFC4798: Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE)
- RFC2080: RIPng for IPv6
- RFC2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
- RFC2740: OSPF for IPv6
- RFC4659: BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
- RFC4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
- RFC2185: Routing Aspects of IPv6 Transition
Aplications
- RFC2428: FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
- RFC3162: RADIUS and IPv6
- RFC4882: IP Address Location Privacy and Mobile IPv6: Problem Statement
- RFC4877: Mobile IPv6 Operation with IKEv2 and the Revised IPsec Architecture
- RFC4866: Enhanced Route Optimization for Mobile IPv6
- RFC4818: RADIUS Delegated-IPv6-Prefix Attribute
- RFC4671: RADIUS Accounting Server MIB for IPv6
- RFC4670: RADIUS Accounting Client MIB for IPv6
- RFC4669: RADIUS Authentication Server MIB for IPv6
- RFC4668: RADIUS Authentication Client MIB for IPv6
- RFC4651: A Taxonomy and Analysis of Enhancements to Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization
- RFC4640: Problem Statement for bootstrapping Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6)
- RFC4584: Extension to Sockets API for Mobile IPv6
- RFC4140: Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6)
- RFC4068: Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6
- RFC3775: Mobility Support in IPv6
- RFC3542: Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6
- RFC3316: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Some Second and Third GenerationCellular Hosts
- RFC3314: Recommendations for IPv6 inThird Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Standards
- RFC2497: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks
- RFC2492: IPv6 over ATM Networks
- RFC2491: IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks
Technologies
- RFC2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
- RFC2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks
- RFC2470: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks
- RFC4919: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs): Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and Goals
- RFC4779: ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access Networks
- RFC4852: IPv6 Enterprise Network Analysis - IP Layer 3 Focus
- RFC4339: IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches
- RFC4338: Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel
- RFC3572: Internet Protocol Version 6 over MAPOS (Multiple Access Protocol Over SONET/SDH)
- RFC3146: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks
- RFC3142: An IPv6-to-IPv4 Transport Relay Translator
- RFC2590: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification
- RFC2472: IP Version 6 over PPP
Security
- RFC4891: Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels
- RFC4890: Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls
- RFC4864: Local Network Protection for IPv6
- RFC4843: An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers (ORCHID)
- RFC4835: Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)
- RFC4487: Mobile IPv6 and FirewallsProblem Statement
- RFC4449: Securing Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization Using a Static Shared Key
- RFC4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
- RFC4302: IP Authentication Header
- RFC4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
- RFC4285: Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6
Others
- RFC4477: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)IPv4 and IPv6 Dual-Stack Issues
- RFC4472: Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS
- RFC4330: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI (Elimina RFC2030, RFC1769)
- RFC4242: Information Refresh Time Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
- RFC4076: Renumbering Requirements for Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
- RFC4074: Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses
- RFC3974: SMTP Operational Experience in Mixed IPv4/v6 Environments
- RFC3956: Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address
- RFC3919: Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Protocol Identifiers for IPv6 and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- RFC3901: DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines
- RFC3898: Network Information Service (NIS) Configuration Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
- RFC3810: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
- RFC3756: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats
- RFC3736: Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service:
- RFC3646: DNS Configuration options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
- RFC3633: IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6
- RFC3596: DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6
- RFC3364: Tradeoffs in Domain Name System (DNS) Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
- RFC3363: Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name
- RFC3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
- RFC3307: Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses
- RFC3226: DNSSEC and IPv6 A6 aware server/resolver message size requirements:
- RFC3122: Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification
- RFC3111: Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6
- RFC2765: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT)
- RFC2375: IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
- RFC2365: Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
- RFC2462: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
- RFC4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
- RFC4704: The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Client FullyQualified Domain Name (FQDN) Option
- RFC4649: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Remote-ID Option
- RFC4580: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Subscriber-ID Option
- RFC4489: A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses
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The field ‘Total Lengh’which is part of the IPv4 header, is not found in the IPv6 header. Its function was to count the size of the packet payload plus the size of a variable lenght header. As the IPv6 header has a fixed size, the presence of this field is unnecessary.
