Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol Version 4
RFC 6274, “Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol Version 4”, is an Informational document published in July 2011 by F. Gont. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document contains a security assessment of the IETF specifications of the Internet Protocol version 4 and of a number of mechanisms and policies in use by popular IPv4 implementations. It is based on the results of a project carried out by the UK's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 6273 The Secure Neighbor Discovery Hash Threat Analysis
- RFC 6275 Mobility Support in IPv6
- RFC 6272 Internet Protocols for the Smart Grid
- RFC 6276 DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for Network Mobility
- RFC 6271 Requirements for SIP-Based Session Peering
- RFC 6277 Online Certificate Status Protocol Algorithm Agility
- RFC 6270 The 'tn3270' URI Scheme
- RFC 6278 Use of Static-Static Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement in Cryptographic Message Syntax