RFCs
Basic STDs:
RFC 4294 - IPv6 Node Requirements. April 2006. Informational.
RFC 1981 - Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6. August 1996. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2460 - Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. December 1998. Draft Standard.
RFC 2461 - Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6). December 1998. Draft Standard.
RFC 2473 - Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification. December 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2675 - IPv6 Jumbograms. August 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2711 - IPv6 Router Alert Option. October 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3595 - Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label. September 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3122 - Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification. June 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3484 - Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). February 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3697 - IPv6 Flow Label Specification. March 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4292 - IP Forwarding Table MIB. April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4293 - Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP). April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4191 - Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes. November 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4311 - IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing. November 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4443 - Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. March 2006. Draft Standard.
RFC 4289 - Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy). April 2006. Experimental.
Autoconfig:
RFC 2462 - IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. December 1998. Draft Standard.
RFC 3041 - Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6. January 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3315 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). July 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3319 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv6) Options for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servers. July 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3633 - IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6. December 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3646 - DNS Configuration options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). December 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3736 - Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6. April 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3898 - Network Information Service (NIS) Configuration Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). October 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4242 - Information Refresh Time Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). November 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4429 - Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6. April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4477 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP): IPv4 and IPv6 Dual-Stack Issues. May 2006. Informational.
RFC 4580 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Relay Agent Subscriber-ID Option. June 2006. Proposed Standard.
Addressing:
RFC 2375 - IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments. July 1998. Informational.
RFC 2450 - Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules. December 1998. Informational.
RFC 2526 - Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses. March 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2928 - Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments. September 2000. Informational.
RFC 3177 - IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites. September 2001. Informational.
RFC 3306 - Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses. August 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3307 - Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses. August 2002. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3587 - IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format. August 2003. Informational.
RFC 3769 - Requirements for IPv6 Prefix Delegation. June 2004. Informational.
RFC 3849 - IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation. July 2004. Informational.
RFC 3879 - Deprecating Site Local Addresses. September 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4007 - IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture. March 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4147 - Proposed Changes to the Format of the IANA IPv6 Registry. August 2005. Informational.
RFC 4193 - Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses. October 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4291 - IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture. February 2006. Draft Standard.
RFC 4489 - A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses. April 2006. Proposed Standard.
Security:
RFC 2401 - Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol. November 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2402 - IP Authentication Header. November 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2406 - IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP). November 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2411 - IP Security Document Roadmap. November 1998. Informational.
RFC 3756 - IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats. May 2004. Informational.
RFC 3776 - Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling Between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents. June 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3971 - SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND). March 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3972 - Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA). March 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4449 - Securing Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization Using a Static Shared Key. June 2006. Proposed Standard.
Multihoming:
RFC 4218 - Threats Relating to IPv6 Multihoming Solutions. October 2005. Informational.
RFC 4219 - Things Multihoming in IPv6 (MULTI6) Developers Should Think About. October 2005. Informational.
Mobility:
RFC 3775 - Mobility Support in IPv6. June 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4065 - Instructions for Seamoby and Experimental Mobility Protocol IANA Allocations. July 2005. Experimental.
RFC 4066 - Candidate Access Router Discovery (CARD). July 2005. Experimental.
RFC 4067 - Context Transfer Protocol (CXTP). July 2005. Experimental.
RFC 4068 - Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6. July 2005. Experimental.
RFC 4260 - Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 802.11 Networks. November 2005. Informational.
RFC 4283 - Mobile Node Identifier Option for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). January 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4285 - Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6. January 2006. Informational.
RFC 4295 - Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base. April 2006. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4225 - Mobile IP version 6 Route Optimization Security Design Background. December 2005. Informational.
RFC 4487 - Mobile IPv6 and Firewalls: Problem Statement. May 2006. Informational.
RFC 4651 - A Taxonomy and Analysis of Enhancements to Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization. February 2007. Informational.
RFC 4866 - Enhanced Route Optimization for Mobile IPv6. May 2007. Proposed Standard.
MLD (Multicast):
RFC 2710 - Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6. October 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3019 - IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol. January 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3590 - Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Protocol. September 2003. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3810 - Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6. June 2004. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4541 - Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches. May 2006. Informational.
DNS:
RFC 2874 - DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering. July 2000. Experimental (published as: Proposed Standard).
RFC 3363 - Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name System (DNS). August 2002. Informational.
RFC 3364 - Tradeoffs in Domain Name System (DNS) Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). August 2002. Informational.
RFC 3596 - DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6. October 2003. Draft Standard.
RFC 4159 - Deprecation of "ip6.int". August 2005. Best Current Practice.
RFC 4472 - Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS. April 2006. Informational.
API:
RFC 3493 - Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6. March 2003. Informational.
RFC 3542 - Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6. May 2003. Informational.
Link Layer:
RFC 2464 - Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks. December 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2467 - Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks. December 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2470 - Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks. December 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2472 - IP Version 6 over PPP. December 1998. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3146 - Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks. October 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3572 - Internet Protocol Version 6 over MAPOS (Multiple Access Protocol Over SONET/SDH). July 2003. Informational.
RFC 4338 - Transmission of IPv6, IPv4, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Packets over Fibre Channel. January 2006. Proposed Standard.
Misc:
RFC 1752 - The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol. January 1995. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2469 - A Caution On The Canonical Ordering Of Link-Layer Addresses. December 1998. Informational.
RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's. December 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2894 - Router Renumbering for IPv6. August 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3178 - IPv6 Multihoming Support at Site Exit Routers. October 2001. Informational.
RFC 3582 - Goals for IPv6 Site-Multihoming Architectures. August 2003. Informational.
RFC 3627 - Use of /127 Prefix Length Between Routers Considered Harmful. September 2003. Informational.
RFC 4057 - IPv6 Enterprise Network Scenarios. June 2005. Informational.
RFC 4177 - Architectural Approaches to Multi-homing for IPv6. September 2005. Informational.
RFC 4192 - Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day. September 2005. Informational.
Testing:
RFC 2471 - IPv6 Testing Address Allocation. December 1998. Historic (published as: Experimental).
RFC 2772 - 6Bone Backbone Routing Guidelines. February 2000. Informational.
RFC 2921 - 6BONE pTLA and pNLA Formats (pTLA). September 2000. Informational.
RFC 3701 - 6bone (IPv6 Testing Address Allocation) Phaseout. March 2004. Informational.
Transition:
RFC 2529 - Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels. March 1999. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2765 - Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT). February 2000. Proposed Standard.
RFC 2766 - Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT). February 2000. Proposed Standard.
(IETF60 v6ops: NAT-PT will be removed from standards track!)
RFC 2767 - Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS). February 2000. Informational.
RFC 3053 - IPv6 Tunnel Broker. January 2001. Informational.
RFC 3056 - Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds. February 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3068 - An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers. June 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3089 - A SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Gateway Mechanism. April 2001. Informational.
RFC 3142 - An IPv6-to-IPv4 Transport Relay Translator. June 2001. Informational.
RFC 3338 - Dual Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-API" (BIA). October 2002. Experimental.
RFC 3904 - Evaluation of IPv6 Transition Mechanisms for Unmanaged Networks. September 2004. Informational.
RFC 3964 - Security Considerations for 6to4. December 2004. Informational.
RFC 4038 - Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition. March 2005. Informational.
RFC 4213 - Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers. October 2005. Proposed Standard.
RFC 4380 - Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP. February 2006. Proposed Standard.
3G Wireless:
RFC 3314 - Recommendations for IPv6 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Standards. September 2002. Informational.
RFC 3316 - Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Some Second and Third Generation Cellular Hosts. April 2003. Informational.
RFC 4215 - Analysis on IPv6 Transition in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Networks. October 2005. Informational.
Changes in other protocols:
RFC 3111 - Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6. May 2001. Proposed Standard.
RFC 3162 - RADIUS and IPv6. August 2001. Proposed Standard.
Working Group Drafts
Non WG Drafts
Links
IETF Working Group IP Version 6 Working Group (ipv6)
IETF Working Group IPv6 Operations (v6ops)
IETF Working Group Site Multihoming in IPv6 (multi6)
IETF Working Group Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation (shim6)
IETF Working Group Mobility for IPv6 (mip6)
IETF Working Group MIPv6 Signaling and Handoff Optimization (mipshop)
IETF Working Group IPv6 over Low power WPAN (6lowpan)
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