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Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments Considered Harmful
RFC 8021

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2022-07-06	Cindy Morgan	This document now replaces draft-gont-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation instead of None
2017-01-06	(System)	Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8021, changed abstract to 'This document discusses the security implications of the generation of IPv6 … Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8021, changed abstract to 'This document discusses the security implications of the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments and a number of interoperability issues associated with IPv6 atomic fragments. It concludes that the aforementioned functionality is undesirable and thus documents the motivation for removing this functionality from an upcoming revision of the core IPv6 protocol specification (RFC 2460).', changed pages to 12, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2017-01-06, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2017-01-06	(System)	RFC published