Internet Protocol Version 6: Request for Comments and Internet Drafts
Published: August 01, 2001 | Updated: February 17, 2003
By Joseph Davies
Abstract
This article outlines how Internet drafts dealing with standards for TCP/IP become RFCs. Included is a table listing the RFCs and Internet drafts related to the implementation of the IPv6 protocol in Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
IPv6 RFCs and Internet Drafts
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The standards for TCP/IP are published in a series of documents called Requests for Comments (RFCs). RFCs are an evolving series of reports, proposals for protocols, and protocol standards that describe the internal workings of TCP/IP and the Internet.
Although TCP/IP standards are always published as RFCs, not all RFCs specify standards. RFCs are authored by individuals who voluntarily write and submit a draft proposal for a new protocol or specification to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other working groups. Submitted Internet drafts are first reviewed by a technical expert, a task force, or an RFC editor, and then assigned a status.
If an Internet draft passes this initial review stage, it is circulated to the larger Internet community for a period of time for further comment and review, and assigned an RFC number. This RFC number remains constant.
If changes are made to the proposed specification, Internet drafts that are revised or updated are circulated by using a new RFC (a number higher than the original RFC number) to identify more recent documents.
The following table lists the RFCs and Internet drafts related to the implementation of the IPv6 protocol in Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
RFC number or Internet draft |
Title |
---|---|
1752 |
The recommendation for the IP next generation protocol |
1828 |
IP authentication using keyed MD5 |
1886 |
DNS extensions to support IP version 6 |
1933 |
Transition mechanisms for IPv6 hosts and routers |
1981 |
Path MTU discovery for IP version 6 |
2185 |
Routing aspects of IPv6 transition |
2373 |
IP version 6 addressing architecture |
2374 |
An IPv6 aggregatable global unicast address format |
2401 |
Security architecture for the Internet protocol |
2402 |
IP authentication header |
2403 |
The use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH (implemented for AH only) |
2404 |
The use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH (implemented for AH only) |
2406 |
IP encapsulating security payload (ESP) |
2428 |
FTP extensions for IPv6 and NATs |
2460 |
Internet protocol, version 6 (IPv6) specification |
2461 |
Neighbor discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) |
2462 |
IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration |
2463 |
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) specification |
2464 |
Transmission of IPv6 packets over Ethernet networks |
2467 |
Transmission of IPv6 packets over FDDI networks |
2526 |
Reserved IPv6 subnet anycast addresses |
2529 |
Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 domains without explicit tunnels |
2553 |
Basic socket interface extensions for IPv6 |
2710 |
Multicast listener discovery (MLD) for IPv6 (implemented for host only) |
2711 |
IPv6 router alert option (implemented for host only) |
2732 |
Format for literal IPv6 addresses in URLs |
3041 |
Privacy extensions for stateless address autoconfiguration in IPv6 |
3056 |
Connection of IPv6 domains via IPv4 clouds |
Internet draft |
An extension of format for IPv6 scoped addresses |
Internet draft |
Intra-site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) |
Internet draft |
Default address selection for IPv6 |
Internet draft |
IP version 6 addressing architecture |
Internet draft |
IP version 6 scoped address architecture |
Internet draft |
Mobility support in IPv6 (host only) |
Internet draft |
Routing of scoped addresses in the Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) |
Internet draft |
Site prefixes in neighbor discovery |
Internet draft |
The UDP lite protocol |
Frequently Asked Questions About the IPv6 Protocol for Windows XP
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/ipv6faq.mspx
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/netwkxp.mspx
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/ipv6/default.mspx
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