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Network Working Group R. HindenRequest for Comments: 2373 NokiaObsoletes: 1884 S. DeeringCategory: Standards Track Cisco Systems July 1998 IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureStatus of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.Abstract This specification defines the addressing architecture of the IP Version 6 protocol [IPV6]. 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.Table of Contents 1. Introduction.................................................2 2. IPv6 Addressing..............................................2 2.1 Addressing Model.........................................3 2.2 Text Representation of Addresses.........................3 2.3 Text Representation of Address Prefixes..................5 2.4 Address Type Representation..............................6 2.5 Unicast Addresses........................................7 2.5.1 Interface Identifiers................................8 2.5.2 The Unspecified Address..............................9 2.5.3 The Loopback Address.................................9 2.5.4 IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses.........10 2.5.5 NSAP Addresses......................................10 2.5.6 IPX Addresses.......................................10 2.5.7 Aggregatable Global Unicast Addresses...............11 2.5.8 Local-use IPv6 Unicast Addresses....................11 2.6 Anycast Addresses.......................................12 2.6.1 Required Anycast Address............................13 2.7 Multicast Addresses.....................................14Hinden & Deering Standards Track [Page 1]RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture July 1998 2.7.1 Pre-Defined Multicast Addresses.....................15 2.7.2 Assignment of New IPv6 Multicast Addresses..........17 2.8 A Node's Required Addresses.............................17 3. Security Considerations.....................................18 APPENDIX A: Creating EUI-64 based Interface Identifiers........19 APPENDIX B: ABNF Description of Text Representations...........22 APPENDIX C: CHANGES FROM RFC-1884..............................23 REFERENCES.....................................................24 AUTHORS' ADDRESSES.............................................25 FULL COPYRIGHT STATEMENT.......................................261.0 INTRODUCTION This specification defines the addressing architecture of the IP Version 6 protocol. It includes a detailed description of the currently defined address formats for IPv6 [IPV6]. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Paul Francis, Scott Bradner, Jim Bound, Brian Carpenter, Matt Crawford, Deborah Estrin, Roger Fajman, Bob Fink, Peter Ford, Bob Gilligan, Dimitry Haskin, Tom Harsch, Christian Huitema, Tony Li, Greg Minshall, Thomas Narten, Erik Nordmark, Yakov Rekhter, Bill Simpson, and Sue Thomson. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119].2.0 IPv6 ADDRESSING IPv6 addresses are 128-bit identifiers for interfaces and sets of interfaces. There are three types of addresses: Unicast: An identifier for a single interface. A packet sent to a unicast address is delivered to the interface identified by that address. Anycast: An identifier for a set of interfaces (typically belonging to different nodes). A packet sent to an anycast address is delivered to one of the interfaces identified by that address (the "nearest" one, according to the routing protocols' measure of distance). Multicast: An identifier for a set of interfaces (typically belonging to different nodes). A packet sent to a multicast address is delivered to all interfaces identified by that address.Hinden & Deering Standards Track [Page 2]RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture July 1998 There are no broadcast addresses in IPv6, their function being superseded by multicast addresses. In this document, fields in addresses are given a specific name, for example "subscriber". When this name is used with the term "ID" for identifier after the name (e.g., "subscriber ID"), it refers to the contents of the named field. When it is used with the term "prefix" (e.g. "subscriber prefix") it refers to all of the address up to and including this field. In IPv6, all zeros and all ones are legal values for any field, unless specifically excluded. Specifically, prefixes may contain zero-valued fields or end in zeros.2.1 Addressing Model IPv6 addresses of all types are assigned to interfaces, not nodes. An IPv6 unicast address refers to a single interface. Since each interface belongs to a single node, any of that node's interfaces' unicast addresses may be used as an identifier for the node. All interfaces are required to have at least one link-local unicast address (see section 2.8 for additional required addresses). A single interface may also be assigned multiple IPv6 addresses of any type (unicast, anycast, and multicast) or scope. Unicast addresses with scope greater than link-scope are not needed for interfaces that are not used as the origin or destination of any IPv6 packets to or from non-neighbors. This is sometimes convenient for point-to-point interfaces. There is one exception to this addressing model: An unicast address or a set of unicast addresses may be assigned to multiple physical interfaces if the implementation treats the multiple physical interfaces as one interface when presenting it to the internet layer. This is useful for load-sharing over multiple physical interfaces. Currently IPv6 continues the IPv4 model that a subnet prefix is associated with one link. Multiple subnet prefixes may be assigned to the same link.2.2 Text Representation of Addresses There are three conventional forms for representing IPv6 addresses as text strings: 1. The preferred form is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where the 'x's are the hexadecimal values of the eight 16-bit pieces of the address. Examples:Hinden & Deering Standards Track [Page 3]RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture July 1998 FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A Note that it is not necessary to write the leading zeros in an individual field, but there must be at least one numeral in every field (except for the case described in 2.). 2. Due to some methods of allocating certain styles of IPv6 addresses, it will be common for addresses to contain long strings of zero bits. In order to make writing addresses containing zero bits easier a special syntax is available to compress the zeros. The use of "::" indicates multiple groups of 16-bits of zeros. The "::" can only appear once in an address. The "::" can also be used to compress the leading and/or trailing zeros in an address. For example the following addresses: 1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A a unicast address FF01:0:0:0:0:0:0:101 a multicast address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 the loopback address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 the unspecified addresses may be represented as: 1080::8:800:200C:417A a unicast address FF01::101 a multicast address ::1 the loopback address :: the unspecified addresses 3. An alternative form that is sometimes more convenient when dealing with a mixed environment of IPv4 and IPv6 nodes is x:x:x:x:x:x:d.d.d.d, where the 'x's are the hexadecimal values of the six high-order 16-bit pieces of the address, and the 'd's are the decimal values of the four low-order 8-bit pieces of the address (standard IPv4 representation). Examples: 0:0:0:0:0:0:13.1.68.3 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:129.144.52.38 or in compressed form: ::13.1.68.3 ::FFFF:129.144.52.38Hinden & Deering Standards Track [Page 4]RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture July 19982.3 Text Representation of Address Prefixes The text representation of IPv6 address prefixes is similar to the way IPv4 addresses prefixes are written in CIDR notation. An IPv6 address prefix is represented by the notation: ipv6-address/prefix-length where ipv6-address is an IPv6 address in any of the notations listed in section 2.2. prefix-length is a decimal value specifying how many of the leftmost contiguous bits of the address comprise the prefix. For example, the following are legal representations of the 60-bit prefix 12AB00000000CD3 (hexadecimal): 12AB:0000:0000:CD30:0000:0000:0000:0000/60 12AB::CD30:0:0:0:0/60 12AB:0:0:CD30::/60 The following are NOT legal representations of the above prefix: 12AB:0:0:CD3/60 may drop leading zeros, but not trailing zeros, within any 16-bit chunk of the address 12AB::CD30/60 address to left of "/" expands to 12AB:0000:0000:0000:0000:000:0000:CD30 12AB::CD3/60 address to left of "/" expands to 12AB:0000:0000:0000:0000:000:0000:0CD3 When writing both a node address and a prefix of that node address (e.g., the node's subnet prefix), the two can combined as follows: the node address 12AB:0:0:CD30:123:4567:89AB:CDEF and its subnet number 12AB:0:0:CD30::/60 can be abbreviated as 12AB:0:0:CD30:123:4567:89AB:CDEF/60Hinden & Deering Standards Track [Page 5]RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture July 19982.4 Address Type Representation The specific type of an IPv6 address is indicated by the leading bits in the address. The variable-length field comprising these leading bits is called the Format Prefix (FP). The initial allocation of these prefixes is as follows: Allocation Prefix Fraction of (binary) Address Space ----------------------------------- -------- ------------- Reserved 0000 0000 1/256 Unassigned 0000 0001 1/256 Reserved for NSAP Allocation 0000 001 1/128 Reserved for IPX Allocation 0000 010 1/128 Unassigned 0000 011 1/128 Unassigned 0000 1 1/32 Unassigned 0001 1/16 Aggregatable Global Unicast Addresses 001 1/8 Unassigned 010 1/8 Unassigned 011 1/8 Unassigned 100 1/8 Unassigned 101 1/8 Unassigned 110 1/8 Unassigned 1110 1/16 Unassigned 1111 0 1/32 Unassigned 1111 10 1/64 Unassigned 1111 110 1/128 Unassigned 1111 1110 0 1/512 Link-Local Unicast Addresses 1111 1110 10 1/1024 Site-Local Unicast Addresses 1111 1110 11 1/1024 Multicast Addresses 1111 1111 1/256 Notes: (1) The "unspecified address" (see section 2.5.2), the loopback address (see section 2.5.3), and the IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses (see section 2.5.4), are assigned out of the 0000 0000 format prefix space.Hinden & Deering Standards Track [Page 6]RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing Architecture July 1998 (2) The format prefixes 001 through 111, except for Multicast Addresses (1111 1111), are all required to have to have 64-bit interface identifiers in EUI-64 format. See section 2.5.1 for definitions. This allocation supports the direct allocation of aggregation addresses, local use addresses, and multicast addresses. Space is reserved for NSAP addresses and IPX addresses. The remainder of the address space is unassigned for future use. This can be used for expansion of existing use (e.g., additional aggregatable addresses, etc.) or new uses (e.g., separate locators and identifiers). Fifteen percent of the address space is initially allocated. The remaining 85% is reserved for future use. Unicast addresses are distinguished from multicast addresses by the value of the high-order octet of the addresses: a value of FF (11111111) identifies an address as a multicast address; any other value identifies an address as a unicast address. Anycast addresses are taken from the unicast address space, and are not syntactically distinguishable from unicast addresses.2.5 Unicast Addresses
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