RFC 2460                   IPv6 Specification              December 1998


Security Considerations

   The security features of IPv6 are described in the Security
   Architecture for the Internet Protocol [RFC-2401].

Acknowledgments

   The authors gratefully acknowledge the many helpful suggestions of
   the members of the IPng working group, the End-to-End Protocols
   research group, and the Internet Community At Large.

Authors' Addresses

   Stephen E. Deering
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134-1706
   USA

   Phone: +1 408 527 8213
   Fax:   +1 408 527 8254
   EMail: deering@cisco.com


   Robert M. Hinden
   Nokia
   232 Java Drive
   Sunnyvale, CA 94089
   USA

   Phone: +1 408 990-2004
   Fax:   +1 408 743-5677
   EMail: hinden@iprg.nokia.com

References

   [RFC-2401]   Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for the
                Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.

   [RFC-2402]   Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "IP Authentication Header",
                RFC 2402, November 1998.

   [RFC-2406]   Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "IP Encapsulating Security
                Protocol (ESP)", RFC 2406, November 1998.

   [ICMPv6]     Conta, A. and S. Deering, "ICMP for the Internet
                Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2463, December 1998.





 
RFC 2460                   IPv6 Specification              December 1998


   [ADDRARCH]   Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
                Architecture", RFC 2373, July 1998.

   [RFC-1981]   McCann, J., Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU
                Discovery for IP version 6", RFC 1981, August 1996.

   [RFC-791]    Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791,
                September 1981.

   [RFC-1700]   Reynolds, J. and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2,
                RFC 1700, October 1994.  See also:
                http://www.iana.org/numbers.html

   [RFC-1661]   Simpson, W., "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", STD
                51, RFC 1661, July 1994.

CHANGES SINCE RFC-1883

   This memo has the following changes from RFC-1883.  Numbers identify
   the Internet-Draft version in which the change was made.

    02) Removed all references to jumbograms and the Jumbo Payload
        option (moved to a separate document).

    02) Moved most of Flow Label description from section 6 to (new)
        Appendix A.

    02) In Flow Label description, now in Appendix A, corrected maximum
        Flow Label value from FFFFFF to FFFFF (i.e., one less "F") due
        to reduction of size of Flow Label field from 24 bits to 20
        bits.

    02) Renumbered (relettered?) the previous Appendix A to be Appendix
        B.