IPng Current Specifications

IPv6 Specification

S. Deering, R. Hinden, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification , RFC 2460, December 1998.

Addressing

R. Hinden, S. Deering, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture , RFC 2373, July 1998.
R. Hinden, S. Deering, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture , Internet Draft, , draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-06.txt , July 2001.
IAB, IESG, IPv6 Address Allocation Management , RFC 1881, December 1995.
Y. Rekhter, T. Li, An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation , RFC 1887, December 1995.
R. Hinden, M. O'Dell, S. Deering, An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format , RFC 2374 , July 1998.
R. Hinden, Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules , RFC 2450 , December 1998.
R. Hinden, S. Deering, R. Fink, T. Hain, Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments , RFC2928 , September 2000.
R. Hinden, R. Fink, J. Postel, IPv6 Testing Address Allocation , RFC2471 , December 1998.
D. Harrington, Link Local Addressing and Name Resolution in IPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-linkname-01.txt , January 1997.
R. Hinden, S. Deering, IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments , RFC 2375 , July 1998.
D. Johnson, S. Deering, Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses , RFC2526 , March 1999.
M. Blanchet, A flexible method fo managing the assignments of bits of an IPv6 address block , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipaddressassign-02.txt , March 2001.
R. Hinden, B. Carpenter, L. Masinter, Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's , RFC 2732 , December 1999.
S. Deering, B. Haberman, B. Zill, IP Version 6 Scoped Address Architecture , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-scoping-arch-02.txt , March 2001.
B. Haberman, D. Thaler, Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-uni-based-mcast-02.txt , June 2001.

Multihoming

R. Draves, Default Address Selection for IPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-default-addr-select-05.txt , June 2001.
J. Yu, IPv6 Multihoming with Route Aggregation , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6multihome-with-aggr-01.txt , August 2000.
F. Dupont, Multihomed routing domain issues for IPv6 aggregatable scheme , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-multi-isp-00.txt , September 1999.

Internet Control Message Protocol

A. Conta, S. Deering, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) , RFC 2463, December 1998.
A. Conta, S. Deering, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) , Internet Draft , draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-00.txt"> Internet Control , June 1999.

Hop by Hop Options

C. Partridge, A. Jackson, IPv6 Router Alert Option , RFC2711 , October 1999.
D. Borman, S. Deering, R. Hinden, IPv6 Jumbograms , RFC2675, , August 1999.

Multicast

S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman, Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 , RFC2710 , October 1999.

Path MTU Discovery

J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 , RFC1981, August 1996.

Header Compression

M. Degermark, B. Nordgren, S. Pink, IP Header Compression , RFC2507 , February 1999.
M. Engan, S. Casner, C. Bormann, IP Header Compression over PPP , RFC2509, , February 1999.
S. Casner, V. Jacobson, Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links , RFC2508, , February 1999.

Packet Tunneling

A. Conta, S. Deering, Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification , RFC2473 , December 1998.

Domain Name System

S. Thomson, C. Huitema, DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 , RFC 1886, December 1995.
M. Crawford, C. Huitema, S. Thomson, DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering , RFC2874 , July 2000.
M. Crawford, IPv6 Node Information Queries , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-07.txt , August 2000.
M. Crawford, Discovery of Resource Records Designating IPv6 Address prefixes , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-prefix-rr-disc-00.txt , November 2000.

Transition Mechanisms

R. Gilligan, E. Nordmark, Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers , RFC2893, August 2000.
D. Haskin, R. Callon, Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition , RFC 2185, September 1997.
B. Carpenter, K. Moore, Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds without Explicit Tunnels , RFC3056 , February 2001.

Routing

G. Malkin, R. Minnear, RIPng for IPv6 , RFC 2080 , January 1997.
R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy, OSPF for IPv6 , RFC 2740 , December 1999.
T. Bates, R. Chandra, D. Katz, Y. Rekhter, RFC2283, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 , February 1998.
R. Minnear, R. Hinden, IGRPng for IPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-minnear-igrpng-00.txt , November 1996.

Renumbering

M. Crawford, Router Renumbering for IPv6 , RFC2894 , August 2000.

Security

IPng w.g. Co-Chairs, Statement on IPv6 Address Privacy , November 6, 1999.
S. Kent, R. Atkinson, Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol , RFC 2401 , November 1998.
S. Kent, R. Atkinson, IP Authentication Header , RFC 2402 , November 1998.
S. Kent, R. Atkinson, IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) , RFC 2406 , November 1998.
P. Metzger, W. Simpson, IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 , RFC 1828, , August 1995.
P. Karn, P. Metzger, W. Simpson, The ESP DES-CBC Transform , RFC 1829 , August 1995.

Neighbor Discovery

T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) , RFC2461 , December 1998.
A. Conta, Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery , RFC3122, , June 2001.

Auto Configuration

S. Thompson, T. Narten, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration , RFC2462 , December 1998.
T. Narten, R. Draves, Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 , RFC3041 January 2001.
J. Bound, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-19.txt , June 2001.
C. Perkins, Extensions for DHCPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6exts-13.txt , May 2000.
D. Thaler, Analysis of DNS Server Discovery Mechanisms for IPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-02.txt , July 2001.
R. Draves, Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-router-selection-00.txt , May 2001.

Program Interfaces

R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, W. Stevens, Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 , RFC2553 , March 1999.
R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, W. Stevens, Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-04.txt, January 2001.
W. Stevens, M. Thomas, Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 RFC 2292, , February 1998.
W. Stevens, M. Thomas, Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-02.txt , November 2000.

OSI NSAP Mapping

J. Bound, B. Carpenter, D. Harrington, J. Houldsworth, A. Lloyd, OSI NSAPs and IPv6 , RFC1888 , August 1996.

Mobility

D. Johnson, C. Perkins, Mobility Support in IPv6 , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-13.txt , November 2000.

IPv6 over Different Media

M. Crawford, A Method for the Tranmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks , RFC2464 , December 1998.
M. Crawford, A Method for the Tranmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks , RFC2467 , December 1998.
M. Crawford, T. Narten, S. Thomas, A Method for the Tranmission of IPv6 Packets over Token Ring Networks , RFC2470 , December 1998.
B. Carpenter, C. Jung, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels , RFC2529 , March 1999.
I. Souvatzis, A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ARCnet Networks , RFC2497 , January 1999.
D. Haskin, E. Allen, IP Version 6 over PPP , RFC2472 , December 1998.
G. Armitage, P. Schulter, M. Jork, G. Harter, IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networks , RFC2491 , January 1999.
G. Armitage, M. Jork, P. Schulter, G. Harter, IPv6 over ATM Networks , RFC2492, January 1999.
A. Conta, A. Malis, M. Mueller, Transmision of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification , RFC 2590 , May 1999.
D. Thaler, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks , Internet Draft, draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipngwg-1394-02.txt , July 2001.

Network Management

B. Haberman, R. Worzella, IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol RFC3019 , January 2001.
M. Daniele, B. Haberman, S. Routhier, J. Schoenwaelder, Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses , RFC2851 , June 2000.
D. Haskin, S. Onishi, Management Information Base for IP Version 6: Textual Conventions and General Group , RFC2465 , December 1998.
D. Haskin, S. Onishi, Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6 Group , RFC2466 , December 1998.
M. Daniele, IPv6 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol , RFC2452 , December 1998.
M. Daniele, IPv6 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol , RFC2454 , December 1998.

IPng Area Directors Recommendation

S. Bradner, A. Mankin, The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol , RFC 1752, January 1995.
Internet Engineering Steering Group, Protocol Action: The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol to Proposed Standard November 19, 1994.

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