Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
RFC 8200
Document | Type |
RFC - Internet Standard
(July 2017; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2460
Also known as STD 86
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Authors | Steve Deering , Bob Hinden | ||
Last updated | 2020-02-04 | ||
Replaces | draft-hinden-6man-rfc2460bis | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Ole Trøan | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2016-11-30) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8200 (Internet Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Suresh Krishnan | ||
Send notices to | "Ole Troan" <otroan@employees.org> | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Deering Request for Comments: 8200 Retired STD: 86 R. Hinden Obsoletes: 2460 Check Point Software Category: Standards Track July 2017 ISSN: 2070-1721 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification Abstract This document specifies version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). It obsoletes RFC 2460. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8200. Deering & Hinden Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 8200 IPv6 Specification July 2017 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Deering & Hinden Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 8200 IPv6 Specification July 2017 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. IPv6 Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. IPv6 Extension Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Extension Header Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2. Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.3. Hop-by-Hop Options Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.4. Routing Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.5. Fragment Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.6. Destination Options Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.7. No Next Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.8. Defining New Extension Headers and Options . . . . . . . 24 5. Packet Size Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 6. Flow Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 7. Traffic Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 8. Upper-Layer Protocol Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 8.1. Upper-Layer Checksums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 8.2. Maximum Packet Lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 8.3. Maximum Upper-Layer Payload Size . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 8.4. Responding to Packets Carrying Routing Headers . . . . . 29 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Appendix A. Formatting Guidelines for Options . . . . . . . . . 36 Appendix B. Changes Since RFC 2460 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Show full document text