Protocols and standards

Protocols and standards related to IPv6 include:

• RFC 1881, IPv6 Address Allocation Management

• RFC 1887, An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation

• RFC 1981, Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6

• RFC 2375, IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments

• RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

• RFC 2464, Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks

• RFC 2526, Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses

• RFC 3307, Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses

• RFC 4191, Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes

• RFC 4291, IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture

• RFC 4443, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

• RFC 4861, Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)

• RFC 4862, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration