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RFC 4443, "Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", March 2006

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 4884

Source of RFC: ipv6 (int)

Errata ID: 6153
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Töma Gavrichenkov
Date Reported: 2020-05-01

Section 3.1 says:

3.1.  Destination Unreachable Message

   [..]

   If the reason for the failure to deliver is that the destination is
   beyond the scope of the source address, the Code field is set to 2.
   This condition can occur only when the scope of the source address is
   smaller than the scope of the destination address (e.g., when a
   packet has a link-local source address and a global-scope destination
   address) and the packet cannot be delivered to the destination
   without leaving the scope of the source address.

It should say:

3.1.  Destination Unreachable Message

   [..]

   If the reason for the failure to deliver is that the destination is
   beyond the scope zone of the source address, the Code field is set to
   2.  The scope zone of the destination address is determined by the
   scope of the address and arrival interface of the packet, as specified
   in [IPv6-SCOPE, Section 9].  Similarly, the scope zone of the source
   address is determined by the scope of the address and arrival
   interface of the packet.  This condition can occur only when
   transmitting the packet on the chosen next-hop interface would cause
   the packet to leave the zone of the source address, i.e., cross a zone
   boundary of the scope of the source address.

7.1.  Normative References

   [..]

   [IPv6-SCOPE] Deering, S., Haberman, B., Jinmei, T., Nordmark, E.,
                and B. Zill, "IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture", RFC
                4007, March 2005.   

Notes:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4007#section-9

Scope zone is not scope.

Consider a case when the source IP is link-local and the destination is global, yet the routing happens in the same VLAN. Per RFC 4007, the packet should be transmitted; however, RFC 4443 allows for an ambiguity which is already causing vendors to reject packets in this case.

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