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Recommendations for Discovering IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis
RFC 9872

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2025-09-30	(System)	Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9872, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-v6ops-prefer8781 and RFC 9872, set abstract to 'On … Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9872, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-v6ops-prefer8781 and RFC 9872, set abstract to 'On networks providing IPv4-IPv6 translation (RFC 7915), hosts and other endpoints need to know the IPv6 prefix(es) used for translation (the NAT64 prefix (RFC 6052)). This document provides guidelines for NAT64 prefix discovery, specifically recommending obtaining the NAT64 prefix from the Router Advertisement option (RFC 8781) when available.', set pages to 10, set standardization level to Informational, added RFC published event at 2025-09-30)
2025-09-30	(System)	RFC published