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Everything about IPv6

Version 6 of the Internet Protocol

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion, and was intended to replace IPv4. In December 1998, IPv6 became a Draft Standard for the IETF, which subsequently ratified it as an Internet Standard on 14 July 2017. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: IPv6A 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: DET: Enabling Efficient Probing of IPv6 Active AddressesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: IPv6The most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: An Analytical Framework for Performance Evaluation of IPv6-Based mobility Management ProtocolsCited 244 times
  5. Go sideways: List of IPv6 transition mechanismsA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: IPv4A closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Main features
  2. Motivation and origin
  3. Comparison with IPv4
  4. IPv6 packets
  5. Addressing
  6. IPv6 in the Domain Name System
  7. Transition mechanisms
  8. Security
  9. Standardization through RFCs
  10. Deployment

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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