The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to consider the following document: - 'Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification' <draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-08.txt> as Internet Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-03-01. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document specifies version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). It obsoletes RFC2460 The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (Draft Standard - IETF stream) rfc3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP (Proposed Standard - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.