Protocol Action: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 15 April 1996 14:52 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration to Proposed Standard
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:47:48 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "IPv6 Stateless Address
  Autoconfiguration" <draft-ietf-addrconf-ipv6-auto-07.txt> as a Proposed
  Standard. This document is the product of the Address Autoconfiguration
  Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Scott Bradner and Allison
  Mankin.


Technical Summary

  IPv6 defines both a stateful and stateless address autoconfiguration
  mechanism. Stateless autoconfiguration requires no manual
  configuration of hosts or additional servers.  The stateless
  mechanism allows a host to generate its own addresses using a
  combination of locally available information and information
  advertised by routers.  In the stateful autoconfiguration model,
  hosts obtain interface addresses and/or configuration information and
  parameters from a server.

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


Working Group Summary

  There were no problems raised during last call for this proposal.

Protocol Quality

  The proposed document was reviewed for the IESG by Scott Bradner and
  Allison Mankin.

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