Rationale for IPv6

RFC 2775, Internet Transparency, B. Carpenter , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2775.txt, February 2000

RFC 2993, Architectural Implications of NAT, T. Hain , IETF, www.normos.org/rfc/rfc2993.txt, November 2000

RFC 3194, The Host-Density Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency: An update on the H ratio, C. Huitema, A. Durand , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3194.txt, November 2001

Protocol Specifications

RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification, S. Deering, R. Hinden , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt, December 1998

RFC 2463, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), A. Conta, S. Deering , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2463.txt, December 1998

Addressing

RFC 2373, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture, R. Hinden, S. Deering , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt, July 1998

RFC 2374, An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format, R. Hinden, S. Deering, M. O'Dell , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2374.txt, July 1998

RFC 2375, IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments, R. Hinden, S. Deering , www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2375.txt, July 1998

RFC 2450, Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules, R. Hinden , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2450.txt, December 1998

RFC 2526, Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses, D. Johnson, S. Deering , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2526.txt, March 1999

RFC 2732, Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's, R. Hinden, B. Carpenter, L. Masinter , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt, December 1999

RFC 2928, Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments, R. Hinden et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2928.txt, September 2000

Neighbor Discovery Protocol: Advertisement, Stateless Autoconfiguration, and Replacement of ARP

RFC 2461, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6), T. Narten, E. Normark, W. Simpson , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2461.txt, December 1998

RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, S. Thomson, T. Narten , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2462.txt, December 1998

RFC 3041, Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6, T. Narten, R. Draves , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3041.txt, January 2001

RFC 3122, Extension to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification, A. Conta , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3122.txt, June 2001

Link Layer Technologies

RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks, M. Crawford , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2464.txt, December 1998

RFC 2467, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks, M. Crawford , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2467.txt, December 1998

RFC 2470, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks, M. Crawford, T. Narten, S. Thomas , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2470.txt, December 1998

RFC 2472, IP Version 6 over PPP, D. Haskin, E. Allen , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2472.txt, December 1998

RFC 2473, Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification, A. Conta, S. Deering. , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2473.txt, December 1998

RFC 2491, IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) Networks, G. Armitage et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2491.txt, January 1999

RFC 2492, IPv6 over ATM Networks, G. Armitage, P. Schulter, M. Jork , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2492.txt, January 1999

RFC 2497, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks, I. Souvatzis , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2497.txt, January 1999

RFC 2529, Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels, B. Carpenter, C. Jung , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2529.txt, March 1999

RFC 2590, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification, A. Conta, A. Malis, M. Mueller , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2590.txt, May 1999

RFC 3146, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks, K. Fujisawa, A. Onoe , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3146.txt, October 2001

Routing Protocols

RFC 2080, RIPng for IPv6, G. Malkin, R. Minnear , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2080.txt, January 1997

RFC 2545, Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing, P. Marques, F. Dupont , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2545.txt, March 1999

RFC 2740, OSPF for IPv6, R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2740.txt, December 1999

RFC 2858, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4, T. Bates et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2858.txt, June 2000

DNS

RFC 1886, DNS Extensions to support IP version 6, S. Thomson, C. Huitema , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1886.txt, December 1995

RFC 2673, Binary Labels in the Domain Name System, M. Crawford , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2673.txt, August 1999

RFC 2874, DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering, M. Crawford, C. Huitema , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2874.txt, July 2000

RFC 3152, Delegation of IP6.ARPA, R. Bush , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3152.txt, August 2001

RFC 3363, Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name System (DNS), R. Bush et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3363.txt, August 2002

RFC 3364, Tradeoffs in Domain Name System (DNS) Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), R. Austein, Bourgeois Dilettant , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3364.txt, August 2002

6bone

RFC 2471, IPv6 Testing Address Allocation, R. Hinden, R. Fink, J. Postel , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2471.txt, December 1998

RFC 2772, 6Bone Backbone Routing Guidelines, R. Rockwell, R. Fink , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2772.txt, February 2000

RFC 2921, 6Bone pTLA and pNLA Formats (pTLA), R. Fink , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2921.txt, September 2000

Production IPv6 Internet

RFC 3177, IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites, IAB, IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3177.txt, September 2001

Transition and Coexistence Mechanisms

RFC 2529, Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels, B. Carpenter, C. Jung , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2529.txt, March 1999

RFC 2765, Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT), E. Nordmark , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2765.txt, February 2000

RFC 2766, Network Address Translation Protocol Translation, G. Tsirtsis, P. Srisuresh. , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2766.txt, February 2000

RFC 2767, Dual Stack Hosts using the “Bump-In-the-Stack” Technique (BIS), K. Tsuchiya, H. Higuchi, Y. Atarashi , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2767.txt, February 2000

RFC 2893, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers, R. Gilligan, E. Nordmark, IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2893.txt, August 2000

RFC 3053, IPv6 Tunnel Broker, A. Durand et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3053.txt, January 2001

RFC 3056, Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds, B. Carpenter, K. Moore , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3056.txt, February 2001

RFC 3068, An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers, C. Huitema , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3068.txt, June 2001

RFC 3089, A SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Gateway Mechanism, H. Kitamura , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3089.txt, April 2001

RFC 3142, An IPv6-to-IPv4 Transport Relay Translator, J. Hagino, K. Yamamoto , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3142.txt, June 2001

Multicast

RFC 2710, Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6, S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2710.txt, October 1999

RFC 3019, IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol, B. Haberman, R. Worzella , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3019.txt, January 2001

RFC 3306, Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses, B. Haberman, D. Thaler , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3306.txt, August 2002

RFC 3307, Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses, B. Haberman , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3307.txt, August 2002

API

RFC 2292, Advanced Sockets API for IPv6, W. Stevens, M. Thomas , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2292.txt, February 1998

RFC 2553, Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6, R. Gilligan et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2553.txt, March 1999

Miscellaneous

RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6, J. McCann et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1981.txt, August 1996

RFC 2428, FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs, M. Allman , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2428.txt, September 1998

RFC 2675, IPv6 Jumbograms, D. Borman, S. Deering, R. Hinden IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2675.txt, August 1999

RFC 2711, IPv6 Router Alert Option, C. Partridge, A. Jackson , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2711.txt, October 1999

RFC 2894, Router Renumbering for IPv6, M. Crawford , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2894.txt, August 2000

RFC 3111, Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6, E. Guttman , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3111.txt, May 2001

RFC 3162, RADIUS and IPv6, B. Aboba, G. Zorn, D. Mitton , www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3162.txt, August 2001

RFC 3178, IPv6 Multihoming Support at Site Exit Routers, J. Hagino, H. Snyder , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3178.txt, October 2001

RFC 3266, Support for IPv6 in Session Description Protocol (SDP), S. Olson et al., IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3266.txt, June 2002

MIB

RFC 2452, IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol, M. Daniele , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2452.txt, December 1998

RFC 2454, IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol, IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2454.txt, December 1998

RFC 2465, Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group, D. Haskin, S. Onishi , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2465.txt, December 1998

RFC 2466, Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group, D. Haskin, S. Onishi , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2466.txt, December 1998

History

RFC 1550, IP: Next Generation (IPng) White Paper Solicitation, S. Bradner, A. Mankin , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1550.txt, December 1993

RFC 1752, The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol, S. Bradner, A. Mankin , IETF, www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1752.txt, January 1995