Mobility Support in IPv6
RFC 6275
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(July 2011; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 3775
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 6275 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Ralph Droms | ||
| IESG note | Julien Laganier (julienl@qualcomm.com) is the document shepherd. | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) C. Perkins, Ed.
Request for Comments: 6275 Tellabs, Inc.
Obsoletes: 3775 D. Johnson
Category: Standards Track Rice University
ISSN: 2070-1721 J. Arkko
Ericsson
July 2011
Mobility Support in IPv6
Abstract
This document specifies Mobile IPv6, a protocol that allows nodes to
remain reachable while moving around in the IPv6 Internet. Each
mobile node is always identified by its home address, regardless of
its current point of attachment to the Internet. While situated away
from its home, a mobile node is also associated with a care-of
address, which provides information about the mobile node's current
location. IPv6 packets addressed to a mobile node's home address are
transparently routed to its care-of address. The protocol enables
IPv6 nodes to cache the binding of a mobile node's home address with
its care-of address, and to then send any packets destined for the
mobile node directly to it at this care-of address. To support this
operation, Mobile IPv6 defines a new IPv6 protocol and a new
destination option. All IPv6 nodes, whether mobile or stationary,
can communicate with mobile nodes. This document obsoletes RFC 3775.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in 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/rfc6275.
Perkins, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 6275 Mobility Support in IPv6 July 2011
Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
publication of this document. Please review these documents
carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of
the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
described in the Simplified BSD License.
This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF
Contributions published or made publicly available before November
10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this
material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow
modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process.
Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling
the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified
outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may
not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format
it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other
than English.
Perkins, et al. Standards Track [Page 2]
RFC 6275 Mobility Support in IPv6 July 2011
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................7
2. Comparison with Mobile IP for IPv4 ..............................8
3. Terminology .....................................................9
3.1. General Terms ..............................................9
3.2. Mobile IPv6 Terms .........................................11
4. Overview of Mobile IPv6 ........................................15
4.1. Basic Operation ...........................................15
4.2. New IPv6 Protocol .........................................17
4.3. New IPv6 Destination Option ...............................18
4.4. New IPv6 ICMP Messages ....................................19
4.5. Conceptual Data Structure Terminology .....................19
4.6. Unique-Local Addressability ...............................20
5. Overview of Mobile IPv6 Security ...............................20
5.1. Binding Updates to Home Agents ............................21
5.2. Binding Updates to Correspondent Nodes ....................22
Show full document text