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Title : Significance of IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Author(s) : Brian Carpenter
Sheng Jiang
Filename : draft-ietf-6man-ug-01.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 2013-05-24
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 bits apply only to interface identifiers that are derived
from an IEEE link-layer address. It updates RFC 4291 accordingly.
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