@misc{rfc7707,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    7707,
    howpublished =  {RFC 7707},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC7707},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7707},
    author =    {Fernando Gont and Tim Chown},
    title =     {{Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks}},
    pagetotal = 38,
    year =      2016,
    month =     mar,
    abstract =  {IPv6 offers a much larger address space than that of its IPv4 counterpart. An IPv6 subnet of size /64 can (in theory) accommodate approximately 1.844 * 10\textasciicircum{}19 hosts, thus resulting in a much lower host density (\#hosts/\#addresses) than is typical in IPv4 networks, where a site typically has 65,000 or fewer unique addresses. As a result, it is widely assumed that it would take a tremendous effort to perform address-scanning attacks against IPv6 networks; therefore, IPv6 address-scanning attacks have been considered unfeasible. This document formally obsoletes RFC 5157, which first discussed this assumption, by providing further analysis on how traditional address-scanning techniques apply to IPv6 networks and exploring some additional techniques that can be employed for IPv6 network reconnaissance.},
}