The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Maintenance WG (6man) to consider the following document: - 'IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture' <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.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 specification defines the addressing architecture of the IP Version 6 (IPv6) protocol. The document includes the IPv6 addressing model, text representations of IPv6 addresses, definition of IPv6 unicast addresses, anycast addresses, and multicast addresses, and an IPv6 node's required addresses. This document obsoletes RFC 4291, "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture". The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
