[rfc-dist] RFC 5075 on IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option

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From: "rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org"
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:49:28 -0800
Subject: [rfc-dist] RFC 5075 on IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option
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        RFC 5075

        Title:      IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option 
        Author:     B. Haberman, Ed.,
                    R. Hinden
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       November 2007
        Mailbox:    brian at innovationslab.net, 
                    bob.hinden at nokia.com
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 12499
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipv6-ra-flags-option-02.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5075.txt

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery's Router Advertisement message contains
an 8-bit field reserved for single-bit flags.  Several protocols have
reserved flags in this field and others are preparing to reserve a
sufficient number of flags to exhaust the field.  This document
defines an option to the Router Advertisement message that expands
the available number of flag bits available.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the IP Version 6 Working Group
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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