RFC 8781 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2020
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
Discovering PREF64 in Router Advertisements
Overview
RFC 8781, “Discovering PREF64 in Router Advertisements”, is a Proposed Standard document published in April 2020 by L. Colitti, J. Linkova. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies a Neighbor Discovery option to be used in Router Advertisements (RAs) to communicate prefixes of Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 clients to IPv4 servers (NAT64) to hosts.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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