File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

A. Cooper
F. Gont
D. Thaler

Stream:

IETF

Source:

6man (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7721

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Abstract

This document discusses privacy and security considerations for several IPv6 address generation mechanisms, both standardized and non-standardized. It evaluates how different mechanisms mitigate different threats and the trade-offs that implementors, developers, and users face in choosing different addresses or address generation mechanisms.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.