RFC 7084 · INFORMATIONAL · 2013

Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers

Overview

RFC 7084, “Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers”, is an Informational document published in November 2013 by H. Singh, W. Beebee, C. Donley, B. Stark. It obsoletes RFC 6204. It has since been updated by RFC 9096, RFC 9818. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document specifies requirements for an IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) router. Specifically, the current version of this document focuses on the basic provisioning of an IPv6 CE router and the provisioning of IPv6 hosts attached to it. The document also covers IP transition technologies. Two transition technologies in RFC 5969's IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd) and RFC 6333's Dual-Stack Lite (DS-Lite) are covered in the document. The document obsoletes RFC 6204.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

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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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC obsoletes
RFC 6204
Updated by
RFC 9096 RFC 9818
Other RFCs from 2013

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