Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 4862
Date
2007-09
Version
Title
IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

Applicability

This document specifies the steps a host takes in deciding how to autoconfigure its interfaces in IP version 6. The autoconfiguration process includes generating a link-local address, generating global addresses via stateless address autoconfiguration, and the Duplicate Address Detection procedure to verify the uniqueness of the addresses on a link.

Responsible Party

Name
NATO Communications and Information Agency

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4862.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2016-12-19 9-16 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
eabe2a70-f489-4488-9758-2d7961748918

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: