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PS> RE: IPv6 RFCs? [searching for RFCs]

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 12:25:41 EST

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    Hi Alan,

    [I copied the PSI list, because below is an FAQ answer].

    First your question - yes RFC 2461 is what IPv6 uses to
    replace ARP (and quite few other protocols). With
    RFC 2461 you can resolve a neighbor's IPv6 network layer
    address into the corresponding datalink layer address
    (for example the IEEE 802.x 48-bit or 64-bit address).

    To Web search for RFCs, go the RFC Editor's home page

    http://www.rfc-editor.org

    and select the 'RFC Search' button.

    There are several IETF mechanisms for finding RFCs. The
    simplest is the RFC Index (titles, authors, dates, only):

    ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt

    Another is that (once your interested in a given RFC by
    title), every even-numbered century RFC (3100, 3200, etc.)
    is the complete latest version of "Internet Official
    Protocol Standards" (also called STD 1). According to
    a copy of the RFC Index that I just fetched, the latest
    that has been published is:

    3300 Internet Official Protocol Standards. J. Reynolds, R. Braden, S.
         Ginoza, A. De La Cruz. November 2002. (Format: TXT=127805 bytes)
         (Obsoletes RFC3000) (Also STD0001) (Status: STANDARD)

    ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3300.txt

    Further, every century minus one (3099 , 3199, etc.) is
    the "RFC Summary" for that century (3099 is 3000 to 3099),
    containing the Title and Abstract of each hundred RFCs.
    These are the best for a detailed topic search (although
    their publication lags a bit behind the latest published
    RFCs).

    Hope all this helps.

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    -----Original Message-----
    From: BERKEMA,ALAN C (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:alan.berkema@hp.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:45 AM
    To: 'McDonald, Ira'
    Subject: IPv6 RFCs?

    Hi Ira,

    This is off topic from PSI, but you really seem
    to have your RFCs down.

    How do I find what IPv6 is using for ARP?
    I found RFC 2461 neighbor Discovery, is that it?

    Is there an IETF way of finding the latest RFC's
    without resorting to Google?

    RFC1883 - The IPv6 base protocol.
    RFC1884 - The address specification.
    RFC1885 - Description of the control protocol, known as ICMP.
    RFC1886 - Addressing the problems of an enhanced Domain Name Service
    (DNS).
    RFC1933 - The transition mechanism.

    Thanks in adavance
    Alan

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