A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. Title : Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers Author(s) : Brian Carpenter Sheng Jiang Filename : draft-ietf-6man-ug-04.txt Pages : 11 Date : 2013-10-01 Abstract: The IPv6 addressing architecture includes a unicast interface identifier that is used in the creation of many IPv6 addresses. Interface identifiers are formed by a variety of methods. This document clarifies that the bits in an interface identifier have no generic meaning and that the identifier should be treated as an opaque value. In particular, RFC 4291 defines a method by which the Universal and Group bits of an IEEE link-layer address are mapped into an IPv6 unicast interface identifier. This document clarifies that those two bits are significant only in interface identifiers that are derived from an IEEE link-layer address, and updates RFC 4291 accordingly. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-ug There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ug-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-ug-04 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt