Re: [v6ops] Very basic question: What is IPv6 native?

> On Jul 18, 2019, at 12:57 PM, Alejandro Acosta <alejandroacostaalamo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
>   Sorry if this is not the place to ask this.
> 
>   I was looking for the concept of "Native IPv6" with no luck.

I might define it as parallel to "native IPv4" or "native Ethernet". If it depends on things using the proposal defined in RFC 8200, and the associated RFCs around it, it uses IPv6. If it *also* requires something using RFC 791 (such as "IPv6 may in some contexts have to be tunneled though IPv4 in some way"), that's IPv6 plus something else, and it therefore not "native".

>   I performed a search in google restricting the results inside
> ietf.org. However even when a lot of results with the string "IPv6
> Native" the concept/description/meaning of what IPv6 native is did not
> show up. Among the results I found:
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6751 (Native IPv6 behind IPv4-to-IPv4 NAT
> Customer Premises Equipment)
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-v6ops-rfc7084-bis-00.html (Basic
> Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers)
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-lopez-v6ops-dc-ipv6-05.html (IPv6
> Operational Guidelines for Datacenters)
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7381 ()
> 
>   And I found this old thread which refer to this very same topic:
> 
>   https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/KkkOMeinS-l9i_SaViVXHuRw20A
> 
> 
>   Is there any document that I might be missing that officially
> describes the concept/meaning of "Native IPv6"?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> 
> Alejandro,
> 
> 
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