IPv6 Standards

IPv6 is defined in the following documents:

• RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
• RFC 2373, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 2461, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6
• RFC 2462, IPv6 Stateless Address Auto configuration
• RFC 2463, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6
• RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
• RFC 2472, IP Version 6 over PPP
• RFC 2474, Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
• RFC 2675, IPv6 Jumbo grams
• RFC 2767, Dual Stack Hosts using the “Bump-In-the-Stack” Technique (BIS)
• RFC 2878, PPP Bridging Control Protocol
• RFC 2893, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
• Internet draft draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-16.txt, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (expires May 2001)
• Internet draft draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-00.txt, BGP4+ Peering Using IPv6 Link-local Address (expires April 2002)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-00.txt, Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules

To access Internet Requests for Comments (RFCs) and drafts, see http://www.ietf.org.