RFC 4218 on Threats Relating to IPv6 Multihoming Solutions

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        RFC 4218

        Title:      Threats Relating to IPv6 Multihoming Solutions
        Author(s):  E. Nordmark, T. Li
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       October 2005
        Mailbox:    erik.nordmark@sun.com, Tony.Li@tony.li
        Pages:      31
        Characters: 75969
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-multi6-multihoming-threats-03.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4218.txt

This document lists security threats related to IPv6 multihoming.
Multihoming can introduce new opportunities to redirect packets to
different, unintended IP addresses.

The intent is to look at how IPv6 multihoming solutions might make
the Internet less secure; we examine threats that are inherent to
all IPv6 multihoming solutions rather than study any specific
proposed solution.  The threats in this document build
upon the threats discovered and discussed as part of the Mobile IPv6
work. 

This document is a product of the Site Multihoming in IPv6 Working
Group of the IETF.

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