IPv6 Router Alert Option

Abstract

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.

Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS): Framework

“…Between adjacent NEs, the route taken by signaling and data might diverge. The path-coupled case can be supported by various addressing styles, with messages either explicitly addressed to the neighbor on-path NE, or addressed identically to the data packets, but also with the router alert option (see [8] and [9]), and intercepted. These cases are considered in Section 4.2.…”

A Comparison of Internet Protocol (IPv6) Security Guidelines

“…[70] Reserved Subnet IPv6 Anycast addresses proposed 1 medium 1 high 3879 [71] Deprecating site-local addresses proposed 1 high 1 high 4193 [72] Unique local IPv6 Unicast addresses proposed 1 low 1 medium 3849 [73] IPv6 address prefix reserved for documentation info 1 high 1 medium 2375 [74] Multicast address assignment info 1 low 1 low 5156 [75] Special-use IPv6 addresses info 1 high 1 high 4007 [76] IPv6 scoped address architecture proposed 1 low 1 medium 6724 [77] Default [80] IPv6 Jumbograms proposed 1 medium 1 low 2711 [81] IPv6 router alert option proposed 1 low 1 low 6398 [82] IP Router Alert Considerations and Usage BCP 0 missing 0 missing 5095 [83] Deprecation of type 0 routing headers in IPv6 proposed 1 medium 0 missing 2474 [84] Definition of the DS-field in IPv4 and IPv6 headers proposed 1 low 1 low 1809 [85] Using the flow label field in IPv6 info 1 low 1 low 6437 [86] IPv6 Flow Label Specification proposed 1 low 1 low 6564 [87] A Uniform Format for IPv6 Extension Headers proposed 0 missing 0 missing 5722 [88] Handling [190] IPv6 Multi-homing support at site with exit routers info 0 missing 0 missing 4218 [191] Threats Relating to IPv6 Multihoming Solutions info 1 low 0 missing 4177 [192] Architectural Approaches to Multihoming for IPv6 info 1 medium 0 missing 5533 [193] SHIM6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 proposed 1 medium 0 missing 5535 [194] Hash [46] Basic transition mechanisms for IPv6 hosts and routers proposed 1 medium 1 medium 4891 [212] Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels info 1 low 0 missing 2473 [213] Generic packet tunneling in IPv6 specification proposed 1 medium 0 missing 4380 [51] Teredo: tunneling IPv6 over UDP through NATs proposed 1 high 1 low 5991 [214] Teredo Security Update proposed 0 missing 0 missing 6081 [215] Teredo Extensions proposed 0 missing 0 missing 3056 [48] Connection of IPv6 domains via IPv4 clouds proposed 1 medium 1 low 3964 …”

GIST: General Internet Signalling Transport

“…The situation with IPv6 is rather different, since in that case the use of non-zero RAO values is well established in the specification ( [17]) and an IANA registry exists. The main problem is that several implementations are still immature: for example, some treat any RAOmarked packet as though it was for local processing without further analysis.…”