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-Network Working Group R. Hinden
-Request for Comments: 4193 Nokia
-Category: Standards Track B. Haberman
- JHU-APL
- October 2005
-
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- Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
-
-Status of This Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-Copyright Notice
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).
-
-Abstract
-
- This document defines an IPv6 unicast address format that is globally
- unique and is intended for local communications, usually inside of a
- site. These addresses are not expected to be routable on the global
- Internet.
-
-Table of Contents
-
- 1. Introduction ....................................................2
- 2. Acknowledgements ................................................3
- 3. Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses ....................................3
- 3.1. Format .....................................................3
- 3.1.1. Background ..........................................4
- 3.2. Global ID ..................................................4
- 3.2.1. Locally Assigned Global IDs .........................5
- 3.2.2. Sample Code for Pseudo-Random Global ID Algorithm ...5
- 3.2.3. Analysis of the Uniqueness of Global IDs ............6
- 3.3. Scope Definition ...........................................6
- 4. Operational Guidelines ..........................................7
- 4.1. Routing ....................................................7
- 4.2. Renumbering and Site Merging ...............................7
- 4.3. Site Border Router and Firewall Packet Filtering ...........8
- 4.4. DNS Issues .................................................8
- 4.5. Application and Higher Level Protocol Issues ...............9
- 4.6. Use of Local IPv6 Addresses for Local Communication ........9
- 4.7. Use of Local IPv6 Addresses with VPNs .....................10
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- 5. Global Routing Considerations ..................................11
- 5.1. From the Standpoint of the Internet .......................11
- 5.2. From the Standpoint of a Site .............................11
- 6. Advantages and Disadvantages ...................................12
- 6.1. Advantages ................................................12
- 6.2. Disadvantages .............................................13
- 7. Security Considerations ........................................13
- 8. IANA Considerations ............................................13
- 9. References .....................................................13
- 9.1. Normative References ......................................13
- 9.2. Informative References ....................................14
-
-1. Introduction
-
- This document defines an IPv6 unicast address format that is globally
- unique and is intended for local communications [IPV6]. These
- addresses are called Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses and are
- abbreviated in this document as Local IPv6 addresses. They are not
- expected to be routable on the global Internet. They are routable
- inside of a more limited area such as a site. They may also be
- routed between a limited set of sites.
-
- Local IPv6 unicast addresses have the following characteristics:
-
- - Globally unique prefix (with high probability of uniqueness).
-
- - Well-known prefix to allow for easy filtering at site
- boundaries.
-
- - Allow sites to be combined or privately interconnected without
- creating any address conflicts or requiring renumbering of
- interfaces that use these prefixes.
-
- - Internet Service Provider independent and can be used for
- communications inside of a site without having any permanent or
- intermittent Internet connectivity.
-
- - If accidentally leaked outside of a site via routing or DNS,
- there is no conflict with any other addresses.
-
- - In practice, applications may treat these addresses like global
- scoped addresses.
-
- This document defines the format of Local IPv6 addresses, how to
- allocate them, and usage considerations including routing, site
- border routers, DNS, application support, VPN usage, and guidelines
- for how to use for local communication inside a site.
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- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
- "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
- document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
-
-2. Acknowledgements
-
- The underlying idea of creating Local IPv6 addresses described in
- this document has been proposed a number of times by a variety of
- people. The authors of this document do not claim exclusive credit.
- Credit goes to Brian Carpenter, Christian Huitema, Aidan Williams,
- Andrew White, Charlie Perkins, and many others. The authors would
- also like to thank Brian Carpenter, Charlie Perkins, Harald
- Alvestrand, Keith Moore, Margaret Wasserman, Shannon Behrens, Alan
- Beard, Hans Kruse, Geoff Huston, Pekka Savola, Christian Huitema, Tim
- Chown, Steve Bellovin, Alex Zinin, Tony Hain, Bill Fenner, Sam
- Hartman, and Elwyn Davies for their comments and suggestions on this
- document.
-
-3. Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
-
-3.1. Format
-
- The Local IPv6 addresses are created using a pseudo-randomly
- allocated global ID. They have the following format:
-
- | 7 bits |1| 40 bits | 16 bits | 64 bits |
- +--------+-+------------+-----------+----------------------------+
- | Prefix |L| Global ID | Subnet ID | Interface ID |
- +--------+-+------------+-----------+----------------------------+
-
- Where:
-
- Prefix FC00::/7 prefix to identify Local IPv6 unicast
- addresses.
-
- L Set to 1 if the prefix is locally assigned.
- Set to 0 may be defined in the future. See
- Section 3.2 for additional information.
-
- Global ID 40-bit global identifier used to create a
- globally unique prefix. See Section 3.2 for
- additional information.
-
- Subnet ID 16-bit Subnet ID is an identifier of a subnet
- within the site.
-
- Interface ID 64-bit Interface ID as defined in [ADDARCH].
-
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-3.1.1. Background
-
- There were a range of choices available when choosing the size of the
- prefix and Global ID field length. There is a direct tradeoff
- between having a Global ID field large enough to support foreseeable
- future growth and not using too much of the IPv6 address space
- needlessly. A reasonable way of evaluating a specific field length
- is to compare it to a projected 2050 world population of 9.3 billion
- [POPUL] and the number of resulting /48 prefixes per person. A range
- of prefix choices is shown in the following table:
-
- Prefix Global ID Number of Prefixes % of IPv6
- Length /48 Prefixes per Person Address Space
-
- /11 37 137,438,953,472 15 0.049%
- /10 38 274,877,906,944 30 0.098%
- /9 39 549,755,813,888 59 0.195%
- /8 40 1,099,511,627,776 118 0.391%
- /7 41 2,199,023,255,552 236 0.781%
- /6 42 4,398,046,511,104 473 1.563%
-
- A very high utilization ratio of these allocations can be assumed
- because the Global ID field does not require internal structure, and
- there is no reason to be able to aggregate the prefixes.
-
- The authors believe that a /7 prefix resulting in a 41-bit Global ID
- space (including the L bit) is a good choice. It provides for a
- large number of assignments (i.e., 2.2 trillion) and at the same time
- uses less than .8% of the total IPv6 address space. It is unlikely
- that this space will be exhausted. If more than this were to be
- needed, then additional IPv6 address space could be allocated for
- this purpose.
-
-3.2. Global ID
-
- The allocation of Global IDs is pseudo-random [RANDOM]. They MUST
- NOT be assigned sequentially or with well-known numbers. This is to
- ensure that there is not any relationship between allocations and to
- help clarify that these prefixes are not intended to be routed
- globally. Specifically, these prefixes are not designed to
- aggregate.
-
- This document defines a specific local method to allocate Global IDs,
- indicated by setting the L bit to 1. Another method, indicated by
- clearing the L bit, may be defined later. Apart from the allocation
- method, all Local IPv6 addresses behave and are treated identically.
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- The local assignments are self-generated and do not need any central
- coordination or assignment, but have an extremely high probability of
- being unique.
-
-3.2.1. Locally Assigned Global IDs
-
- Locally assigned Global IDs MUST be generated with a pseudo-random
- algorithm consistent with [RANDOM]. Section 3.2.2 describes a
- suggested algorithm. It is important that all sites generating
- Global IDs use a functionally similar algorithm to ensure there is a
- high probability of uniqueness.
-
- The use of a pseudo-random algorithm to generate Global IDs in the
- locally assigned prefix gives an assurance that any network numbered
- using such a prefix is highly unlikely to have that address space
- clash with any other network that has another locally assigned prefix
- allocated to it. This is a particularly useful property when
- considering a number of scenarios including networks that merge,
- overlapping VPN address space, or hosts mobile between such networks.
-
-3.2.2. Sample Code for Pseudo-Random Global ID Algorithm
-
- The algorithm described below is intended to be used for locally
- assigned Global IDs. In each case the resulting global ID will be
- used in the appropriate prefix as defined in Section 3.2.
-
- 1) Obtain the current time of day in 64-bit NTP format [NTP].
-
- 2) Obtain an EUI-64 identifier from the system running this
- algorithm. If an EUI-64 does not exist, one can be created from
- a 48-bit MAC address as specified in [ADDARCH]. If an EUI-64
- cannot be obtained or created, a suitably unique identifier,
- local to the node, should be used (e.g., system serial number).
-
- 3) Concatenate the time of day with the system-specific identifier
- in order to create a key.
-
- 4) Compute an SHA-1 digest on the key as specified in [FIPS, SHA1];
- the resulting value is 160 bits.
-
- 5) Use the least significant 40 bits as the Global ID.
-
- 6) Concatenate FC00::/7, the L bit set to 1, and the 40-bit Global
- ID to create a Local IPv6 address prefix.
-
- This algorithm will result in a Global ID that is reasonably unique
- and can be used to create a locally assigned Local IPv6 address
- prefix.
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-3.2.3. Analysis of the Uniqueness of Global IDs
-
- The selection of a pseudo random Global ID is similar to the
- selection of an SSRC identifier in RTP/RTCP defined in Section 8.1 of
- [RTP]. This analysis is adapted from that document.
-
- Since Global IDs are chosen randomly (and independently), it is
- possible that separate networks have chosen the same Global ID. For
- any given network, with one or more random Global IDs, that has
- inter-connections to other such networks, having a total of N such
- IDs, the probability that two or more of these IDs will collide can
- be approximated using the formula:
-
- P = 1 - exp(-N**2 / 2**(L+1))
-
- where P is the probability of collision, N is the number of
- interconnected Global IDs, and L is the length of the Global ID.
-
- The following table shows the probability of a collision for a range
- of connections using a 40-bit Global ID field.
-
- Connections Probability of Collision
-
- 2 1.81*10^-12
- 10 4.54*10^-11
- 100 4.54*10^-09
- 1000 4.54*10^-07
- 10000 4.54*10^-05
-
- Based on this analysis, the uniqueness of locally generated Global
- IDs is adequate for sites planning a small to moderate amount of
- inter-site communication using locally generated Global IDs.
-
-3.3. Scope Definition
-
- By default, the scope of these addresses is global. That is, they
- are not limited by ambiguity like the site-local addresses defined in
- [ADDARCH]. Rather, these prefixes are globally unique, and as such,
- their applicability is greater than site-local addresses. Their
- limitation is in the routability of the prefixes, which is limited to
- a site and any explicit routing agreements with other sites to
- propagate them (also see Section 4.1). Also, unlike site-locals, a
- site may have more than one of these prefixes and use them at the
- same time.
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-4. Operational Guidelines
-
- The guidelines in this section do not require any change to the
- normal routing and forwarding functionality in an IPv6 host or
- router. These are configuration and operational usage guidelines.
-
-4.1. Routing
-
- Local IPv6 addresses are designed to be routed inside of a site in
- the same manner as other types of unicast addresses. They can be
- carried in any IPv6 routing protocol without any change.
-
- It is expected that they would share the same Subnet IDs with
- provider-based global unicast addresses, if they were being used
- concurrently [GLOBAL].
-
- The default behavior of exterior routing protocol sessions between
- administrative routing regions must be to ignore receipt of and not
- advertise prefixes in the FC00::/7 block. A network operator may
- specifically configure prefixes longer than FC00::/7 for inter-site
- communication.
-
- If BGP is being used at the site border with an ISP, the default BGP
- configuration must filter out any Local IPv6 address prefixes, both
- incoming and outgoing. It must be set both to keep any Local IPv6
- address prefixes from being advertised outside of the site as well as
- to keep these prefixes from being learned from another site. The
- exception to this is if there are specific /48 or longer routes
- created for one or more Local IPv6 prefixes.
-
- For link-state IGPs, it is suggested that a site utilizing IPv6 local
- address prefixes be contained within one IGP domain or area. By
- containing an IPv6 local address prefix to a single link-state area
- or domain, the distribution of prefixes can be controlled.
-
-4.2. Renumbering and Site Merging
-
- The use of Local IPv6 addresses in a site results in making
- communication that uses these addresses independent of renumbering a
- site's provider-based global addresses.
-
- When merging multiple sites, the addresses created with these
- prefixes are unlikely to need to be renumbered because all of the
- addresses have a high probability of being unique. Routes for each
- specific prefix would have to be configured to allow routing to work
- correctly between the formerly separate sites.
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-4.3. Site Border Router and Firewall Packet Filtering
-
- While no serious harm will be done if packets with these addresses
- are sent outside of a site via a default route, it is recommended
- that routers be configured by default to keep any packets with Local
- IPv6 addresses from leaking outside of the site and to keep any site
- prefixes from being advertised outside of their site.
-
- Site border routers and firewalls should be configured to not forward
- any packets with Local IPv6 source or destination addresses outside
- of the site, unless they have been explicitly configured with routing
- information about specific /48 or longer Local IPv6 prefixes. This
- will ensure that packets with Local IPv6 destination addresses will
- not be forwarded outside of the site via a default route. The
- default behavior of these devices should be to install a "reject"
- route for these prefixes. Site border routers should respond with
- the appropriate ICMPv6 Destination Unreachable message to inform the
- source that the packet was not forwarded. [ICMPV6]. This feedback is
- important to avoid transport protocol timeouts.
-
- Routers that maintain peering arrangements between Autonomous Systems
- throughout the Internet should obey the recommendations for site
- border routers, unless configured otherwise.
-
-4.4. DNS Issues
-
- At the present time, AAAA and PTR records for locally assigned local
- IPv6 addresses are not recommended to be installed in the global DNS.
-
- For background on this recommendation, one of the concerns about
- adding AAAA and PTR records to the global DNS for locally assigned
- Local IPv6 addresses stems from the lack of complete assurance that
- the prefixes are unique. There is a small possibility that the same
- locally assigned IPv6 Local addresses will be used by two different
- organizations both claiming to be authoritative with different
- contents. In this scenario, it is likely there will be a connection
- attempt to the closest host with the corresponding locally assigned
- IPv6 Local address. This may result in connection timeouts,
- connection failures indicated by ICMP Destination Unreachable
- messages, or successful connections to the wrong host. Due to this
- concern, adding AAAA records for these addresses to the global DNS is
- thought to be unwise.
-
- Reverse (address-to-name) queries for locally assigned IPv6 Local
- addresses MUST NOT be sent to name servers for the global DNS, due to
- the load that such queries would create for the authoritative name
- servers for the ip6.arpa zone. This form of query load is not
- specific to locally assigned Local IPv6 addresses; any current form
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- of local addressing creates additional load of this kind, due to
- reverse queries leaking out of the site. However, since allowing
- such queries to escape from the site serves no useful purpose, there
- is no good reason to make the existing load problems worse.
-
- The recommended way to avoid sending such queries to nameservers for
- the global DNS is for recursive name server implementations to act as
- if they were authoritative for an empty d.f.ip6.arpa zone and return
- RCODE 3 for any such query. Implementations that choose this
- strategy should allow it to be overridden, but returning an RCODE 3
- response for such queries should be the default, both because this
- will reduce the query load problem and also because, if the site
- administrator has not set up the reverse tree corresponding to the
- locally assigned IPv6 Local addresses in use, returning RCODE 3 is in
- fact the correct answer.
-
-4.5. Application and Higher Level Protocol Issues
-
- Application and other higher level protocols can treat Local IPv6
- addresses in the same manner as other types of global unicast
- addresses. No special handling is required. This type of address
- may not be reachable, but that is no different from other types of
- IPv6 global unicast address. Applications need to be able to handle
- multiple addresses that may or may not be reachable at any point in
- time. In most cases, this complexity should be hidden in APIs.
-
- From a host's perspective, the difference between Local IPv6 and
- other types of global unicast addresses shows up as different
- reachability and could be handled by default in that way. In some
- cases, it is better for nodes and applications to treat them
- differently from global unicast addresses. A starting point might be
- to give them preference over global unicast, but fall back to global
- unicast if a particular destination is found to be unreachable. Much
- of this behavior can be controlled by how they are allocated to nodes
- and put into the DNS. However, it is useful if a host can have both
- types of addresses and use them appropriately.
-
- Note that the address selection mechanisms of [ADDSEL], and in
- particular the policy override mechanism replacing default address
- selection, are expected to be used on a site where Local IPv6
- addresses are configured.
-
-4.6. Use of Local IPv6 Addresses for Local Communication
-
- Local IPv6 addresses, like global scope unicast addresses, are only
- assigned to nodes if their use has been enabled (via IPv6 address
- autoconfiguration [ADDAUTO], DHCPv6 [DHCP6], or manually). They are
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- not created automatically in the way that IPv6 link-local addresses
- are and will not appear or be used unless they are purposely
- configured.
-
- In order for hosts to autoconfigure Local IPv6 addresses, routers
- have to be configured to advertise Local IPv6 /64 prefixes in router
- advertisements, or a DHCPv6 server must have been configured to
- assign them. In order for a node to learn the Local IPv6 address of
- another node, the Local IPv6 address must have been installed in a
- naming system (e.g., DNS, proprietary naming system, etc.) For these
- reasons, controlling their usage in a site is straightforward.
-
- To limit the use of Local IPv6 addresses the following guidelines
- apply:
-
- - Nodes that are to only be reachable inside of a site: The local
- DNS should be configured to only include the Local IPv6
- addresses of these nodes. Nodes with only Local IPv6 addresses
- must not be installed in the global DNS.
-
- - Nodes that are to be limited to only communicate with other
- nodes in the site: These nodes should be set to only
- autoconfigure Local IPv6 addresses via [ADDAUTO] or to only
- receive Local IPv6 addresses via [DHCP6]. Note: For the case
- where both global and Local IPv6 prefixes are being advertised
- on a subnet, this will require a switch in the devices to only
- autoconfigure Local IPv6 addresses.
-
- - Nodes that are to be reachable from inside of the site and from
- outside of the site: The DNS should be configured to include
- the global addresses of these nodes. The local DNS may be
- configured to also include the Local IPv6 addresses of these
- nodes.
-
- - Nodes that can communicate with other nodes inside of the site
- and outside of the site: These nodes should autoconfigure global
- addresses via [ADDAUTO] or receive global address via [DHCP6].
- They may also obtain Local IPv6 addresses via the same
- mechanisms.
-
-4.7. Use of Local IPv6 Addresses with VPNs
-
- Local IPv6 addresses can be used for inter-site Virtual Private
- Networks (VPN) if appropriate routes are set up. Because the
- addresses are unique, these VPNs will work reliably and without the
- need for translation. They have the additional property that they
- will continue to work if the individual sites are renumbered or
- merged.
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-5. Global Routing Considerations
-
- Section 4.1 provides operational guidelines that forbid default
- routing of local addresses between sites. Concerns were raised to
- the IPv6 working group and to the IETF as a whole that sites may
- attempt to use local addresses as globally routed provider-
- independent addresses. This section describes why using local
- addresses as globally-routed provider-independent addresses is
- unadvisable.
-
-5.1. From the Standpoint of the Internet
-
- There is a mismatch between the structure of IPv6 local addresses and
- the normal IPv6 wide area routing model. The /48 prefix of an IPv6
- local addresses fits nowhere in the normal hierarchy of IPv6 unicast
- addresses. Normal IPv6 unicast addresses can be routed
- hierarchically down to physical subnet (link) level and only have to
- be flat-routed on the physical subnet. IPv6 local addresses would
- have to be flat-routed even over the wide area Internet.
-
- Thus, packets whose destination address is an IPv6 local address
- could be routed over the wide area only if the corresponding /48
- prefix were carried by the wide area routing protocol in use, such as
- BGP. This contravenes the operational assumption that long prefixes
- will be aggregated into many fewer short prefixes, to limit the table
- size and convergence time of the routing protocol. If a network uses
- both normal IPv6 addresses [ADDARCH] and IPv6 local addresses, these
- types of addresses will certainly not aggregate with each other,
- since they differ from the most significant bit onwards. Neither
- will IPv6 local addresses aggregate with each other, due to their
- random bit patterns. This means that there would be a very
- significant operational penalty for attempting to use IPv6 local
- address prefixes generically with currently known wide area routing
- technology.
-
-5.2. From the Standpoint of a Site
-
- There are a number of design factors in IPv6 local addresses that
- reduce the likelihood that IPv6 local addresses will be used as
- arbitrary global unicast addresses. These include:
-
- - The default rules to filter packets and routes make it very
- difficult to use IPv6 local addresses for arbitrary use across
- the Internet. For a site to use them as general purpose unicast
- addresses, it would have to make sure that the default rules
- were not being used by all other sites and intermediate ISPs
- used for their current and future communication.
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- - They are not mathematically guaranteed to be unique and are not
- registered in public databases. Collisions, while highly
- unlikely, are possible and a collision can compromise the
- integrity of the communications. The lack of public
- registration creates operational problems.
-
- - The addresses are allocated randomly. If a site had multiple
- prefixes that it wanted to be used globally, the cost of
- advertising them would be very high because they could not be
- aggregated.
-
- - They have a long prefix (i.e., /48) so a single local address
- prefix doesn't provide enough address space to be used
- exclusively by the largest organizations.
-
-6. Advantages and Disadvantages
-
-6.1. Advantages
-
- This approach has the following advantages:
-
- - Provides Local IPv6 prefixes that can be used independently of
- any provider-based IPv6 unicast address allocations. This is
- useful for sites not always connected to the Internet or sites
- that wish to have a distinct prefix that can be used to localize
- traffic inside of the site.
-
- - Applications can treat these addresses in an identical manner as
- any other type of global IPv6 unicast addresses.
-
- - Sites can be merged without any renumbering of the Local IPv6
- addresses.
-
- - Sites can change their provider-based IPv6 unicast address
- without disrupting any communication that uses Local IPv6
- addresses.
-
- - Well-known prefix that allows for easy filtering at site
- boundary.
-
- - Can be used for inter-site VPNs.
-
- - If accidently leaked outside of a site via routing or DNS, there
- is no conflict with any other addresses.
-
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-6.2. Disadvantages
-
- This approach has the following disadvantages:
-
- - Not possible to route Local IPv6 prefixes on the global Internet
- with current routing technology. Consequentially, it is
- necessary to have the default behavior of site border routers to
- filter these addresses.
-
- - There is a very low probability of non-unique locally assigned
- Global IDs being generated by the algorithm in Section 3.2.3.
- This risk can be ignored for all practical purposes, but it
- leads to a theoretical risk of clashing address prefixes.
-
-7. Security Considerations
-
- Local IPv6 addresses do not provide any inherent security to the
- nodes that use them. They may be used with filters at site
- boundaries to keep Local IPv6 traffic inside of the site, but this is
- no more or less secure than filtering any other type of global IPv6
- unicast addresses.
-
- Local IPv6 addresses do allow for address-based security mechanisms,
- including IPsec, across end to end VPN connections.
-
-8. IANA Considerations
-
- The IANA has assigned the FC00::/7 prefix to "Unique Local Unicast".
-
-9. References
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-9.1. Normative References
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- [ADDARCH] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "Internet Protocol Version 6
- (IPv6) Addressing Architecture", RFC 3513, April 2003.
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- [FIPS] "Federal Information Processing Standards Publication",
- (FIPS PUB) 180-1, Secure Hash Standard, 17 April 1995.
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- [GLOBAL] Hinden, R., Deering, S., and E. Nordmark, "IPv6 Global
- Unicast Address Format", RFC 3587, August 2003.
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- [ICMPV6] Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Internet Control Message
- Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6
- (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2463, December 1998.
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- (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.
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- [NTP] Mills, D., "Network Time Protocol (Version 3)
- Specification, Implementation and Analysis", RFC 1305,
- March 1992.
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- [RANDOM] Eastlake, D., 3rd, Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
- "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
- June 2005.
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- [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
- Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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- [SHA1] Eastlake 3rd, D. and P. Jones, "US Secure Hash Algorithm 1
- (SHA1)", RFC 3174, September 2001.
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-9.2. Informative References
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- [ADDAUTO] Thomson, S. and T. Narten, "IPv6 Stateless Address
- Autoconfiguration", RFC 2462, December 1998.
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- [ADDSEL] Draves, R., "Default Address Selection for Internet
- Protocol version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 3484, February 2003.
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- [DHCP6] Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C., and
- M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
- (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.
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- [POPUL] Population Reference Bureau, "World Population Data Sheet
- of the Population Reference Bureau 2002", August 2002.
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- [RTP] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V.
- Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
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- Nokia
- 313 Fairchild Drive
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- USA
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- EMail: bob.hinden@nokia.com
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- Johns Hopkins University
- Applied Physics Lab
- 11100 Johns Hopkins Road
- Laurel, MD 20723
- USA
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- EMail: brian@innovationslab.net
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