RFC 6535

"Dual-Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-Host" (BIH)", February 2012

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6535.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2767, RFC 3338

Authors:

B. Huang
H. Deng
T. Savolainen

Stream:

IETF

Source:

behave (tsv)

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Abstract

Bump-in-the-Host (BIH) is a host-based IPv4 to IPv6 protocol translation mechanism that allows a class of IPv4-only applications that work through NATs to communicate with IPv6-only peers. The host on which applications are running may be connected to IPv6-only or dual-stack access networks. BIH hides IPv6 and makes the IPv4-only applications think they are talking with IPv4 peers by local synthesis of IPv4 addresses. This document obsoletes RFC 2767 and RFC 3338. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.