Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
RFC 6204
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(April 2011; Errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 7084
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| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Replaces | draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router | ||
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| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | RFC 6204 (Informational) | |
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Singh
Request for Comments: 6204 W. Beebee
Category: Informational Cisco Systems, Inc.
ISSN: 2070-1721 C. Donley
CableLabs
B. Stark
AT&T
O. Troan, Ed.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
April 2011
Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Abstract
This document specifies requirements for an IPv6 Customer Edge (CE)
router. Specifically, the current version of this document focuses
on the basic provisioning of an IPv6 CE router and the provisioning
of IPv6 hosts attached to it.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6204.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. Requirements Language ......................................3
2. Terminology .....................................................3
3. Architecture ....................................................4
3.1. Current IPv4 End-User Network Architecture .................4
3.2. IPv6 End-User Network Architecture .........................4
3.2.1. Local Communication .................................6
4. Requirements ....................................................6
4.1. General Requirements .......................................6
4.2. WAN-Side Configuration .....................................7
4.3. LAN-Side Configuration ....................................11
4.4. Security Considerations ...................................13
5. Acknowledgements ...............................................13
6. Contributors ...................................................14
7. References .....................................................14
7.1. Normative References ......................................14
7.2. Informative References ....................................16
1. Introduction
This document defines basic IPv6 features for a residential or small-
office router, referred to as an IPv6 CE router. Typically, these
routers also support IPv4.
Mixed environments of dual-stack hosts and IPv6-only hosts (behind
the CE router) can be more complex if the IPv6-only devices are using
a translator to access IPv4 servers [RFC6144]. Support for such
mixed environments is not in scope of this document.
This document specifies how an IPv6 CE router automatically
provisions its WAN interface, acquires address space for provisioning
of its LAN interfaces, and fetches other configuration information
from the service provider network. Automatic provisioning of more
complex topology than a single router with multiple LAN interfaces is
out of scope for this document.
See [RFC4779] for a discussion of options available for deploying
IPv6 in service provider access networks.
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1.1. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
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