Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
RFC 4191

Network Working Group R. Draves
Request for Comments: 4191 D. Thaler
Category: Standards Track Microsoft
 November 2005
 Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
Status 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 (2005).
Abstract
 This document describes an optional extension to Router Advertisement
 messages for communicating default router preferences and more-
 specific routes from routers to hosts. This improves the ability of
 hosts to pick an appropriate router, especially when the host is
 multi-homed and the routers are on different links. The preference
 values and specific routes advertised to hosts require administrative
 configuration; they are not automatically derived from routing
 tables.
1. Introduction
 Neighbor Discovery [RFC2461] specifies a conceptual model for hosts
 that includes a Default Router List and a Prefix List. Hosts send
 Router Solicitation messages and receive Router Advertisement
 messages from routers. Hosts populate their Default Router List and
 Prefix List based on information in the Router Advertisement
 messages. A conceptual sending algorithm uses the Prefix List to
 determine if a destination address is on-link and uses the Default
 Router List to select a router for off-link destinations.
 In some network topologies where the host has multiple routers on its
 Default Router List, the choice of router for an off-link destination
 is important. In some situations, one router may provide much better
 performance than another for a destination. In other situations,
 choosing the wrong router may result in a failure to communicate.
 (Section 5 gives specific examples of these scenarios.)
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 This document describes an optional extension to Neighbor Discovery
 Router Advertisement messages for communicating default router
 preferences and more-specific routes from routers to hosts. This
 improves the ability of hosts to pick an appropriate router for an
 off-link destination.
 Note that since these procedures are applicable to hosts only, the
 forwarding algorithm used by the routers (including hosts with
 enabled IP forwarding) is not affected.
 Neighbor Discovery provides a Redirect message that routers can use
 to correct a host's choice of router. A router can send a Redirect
 message to a host, telling it to use a different router for a
 specific destination. However, the Redirect functionality is limited
 to a single link. A router on one link cannot redirect a host to a
 router on another link. Hence, Redirect messages do not help multi-
 homed (through multiple interfaces) hosts select an appropriate
 router.
 Multi-homed hosts are an increasingly important scenario, especially
 with IPv6. In addition to a wired network connection, like Ethernet,
 hosts may have one or more wireless connections, like 802.11 or
 Bluetooth. In addition to physical network connections, hosts may
 have virtual or tunnel network connections. For example, in addition
 to a direct connection to the public Internet, a host may have a
 tunnel into a private corporate network. Some IPv6 transition
 scenarios can add additional tunnels. For example, hosts may have
 6to4 [RFC3056] or configured tunnel [RFC2893] network connections.
 This document requires that the preference values and specific routes
 advertised to hosts require explicit administrative configuration.
 They are not automatically derived from routing tables. In
 particular, the preference values are not routing metrics and it is
 not recommended that routers "dump out" their entire routing tables
 to hosts.
 We use Router Advertisement messages, instead of some other protocol
 like RIP [RFC2080], because Router Advertisements are an existing
 standard, stable protocol for router-to-host communication.
 Piggybacking this information on existing message traffic from
 routers to hosts reduces network overhead. Neighbor Discovery shares
 with Multicast Listener Discovery the property that they both define
 host-to-router interactions, while shielding the host from having to
 participate in more general router-to-router interactions. In
 addition, RIP is unsuitable because it does not carry route lifetimes
 so it requires frequent message traffic with greater processing
 overheads.
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 The mechanisms specified here are backwards-compatible, so that hosts
 that do not implement them continue to function as well as they did
 previously.
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document
 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 [RFC2119].
2. Message Formats
2.1. Preference Values
 Default router preferences and preferences for more-specific routes
 are encoded the same way.
 Preference values are encoded as a two-bit signed integer, as
 follows:
 01 High
 00 Medium (default)
 11 Low
 10 Reserved - MUST NOT be sent
 Note that implementations can treat the value as a two-bit signed
 integer.
 Having just three values reinforces that they are not metrics and
 more values do not appear to be necessary for reasonable scenarios.
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2.2. Changes to Router Advertisement Message Format
 The changes from Neighbor Discovery [RFC2461] Section 4.2 and
 [RFC3775] Section 7.1 are as follows:
 0 1 2 3
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Type | Code | Checksum |
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Cur Hop Limit |M|O|H|Prf|Resvd| Router Lifetime |
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Reachable Time |
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Retrans Timer |
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Options ...
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
 Fields:
 Prf (Default Router Preference)
 2-bit signed integer. Indicates whether to prefer this
 router over other default routers. If the Router Lifetime
 is zero, the preference value MUST be set to (00) by the
 sender and MUST be ignored by the receiver. If the Reserved
 (10) value is received, the receiver MUST treat the value as
 if it were (00).
 Resvd (Reserved)
 A 3-bit unused field. It MUST be initialized to zero by the
 sender and MUST be ignored by the receiver.
 Possible Options:
 Route Information
 These options specify prefixes that are reachable via the
 router.
 Discussion:
 Note that in addition to the preference value in the message header,
 a Router Advertisement can also contain a Route Information Option
 for ::/0, with a preference value and lifetime. Encoding a
 preference value in the Router Advertisement header has some
 advantages:
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 1. It allows for a distinction between the "best router for the
 default route" and the "router least likely to redirect common
 traffic", as described below in Section 5.1.
 2. When the best router for the default route is also the router
 least likely to redirect common traffic (which will be a common
 case), encoding the preference value in the message header is more
 efficient than sending a separate option.
2.3. Route Information Option
 0 1 2 3
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Type | Length | Prefix Length |Resvd|Prf|Resvd|
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Route Lifetime |
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 | Prefix (Variable Length) |
 . .
 . .
 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 Fields:
 Type 24
 Length 8-bit unsigned integer. The length of the option
 (including the Type and Length fields) in units of 8
 octets. The Length field is 1, 2, or 3 depending on the
 Prefix Length. If Prefix Length is greater than 64, then
 Length must be 3. If Prefix Length is greater than 0,
 then Length must be 2 or 3. If Prefix Length is zero,
 then Length must be 1, 2, or 3.
 Prefix Length
 8-bit unsigned integer. The number of leading bits in
 the Prefix that are valid. The value ranges from 0 to
 128. The Prefix field is 0, 8, or 16 octets depending on
 Length.
 Prf (Route Preference)
 2-bit signed integer. The Route Preference indicates
 whether to prefer the router associated with this prefix
 over others, when multiple identical prefixes (for
 different routers) have been received. If the Reserved
 (10) value is received, the Route Information Option MUST
 be ignored.
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 Resvd (Reserved)
 Two 3-bit unused fields. They MUST be initialized to
 zero by the sender and MUST be ignored by the receiver.
 Route Lifetime
 32-bit unsigned integer. The length of time in seconds
 (relative to the time the packet is sent) that the prefix
 is valid for route determination. A value of all one
 bits (0xffffffff) represents infinity.
 Prefix Variable-length field containing an IP address or a
 prefix of an IP address. The Prefix Length field
 contains the number of valid leading bits in the prefix.
 The bits in the prefix after the prefix length (if any)
 are reserved and MUST be initialized to zero by the
 sender and ignored by the receiver.
 Routers MUST NOT include two Route Information Options with the same
 Prefix and Prefix Length in the same Router Advertisement.
 Discussion:
 There are several reasons for using a new Route Information Option
 instead of using flag bits to overload the existing Prefix
 Information Option:
 1. Prefixes will typically only show up in one option, not both, so a
 new option does not introduce duplication.
 2. The Route Information Option is typically 16 octets while the
 Prefix Information Option is 32 octets.
 3. Using a new option may improve backwards-compatibility with some
 host implementations.
3. Conceptual Model of a Host
 There are three possible conceptual models for a host implementation
 of default router preferences and more-specific routes, corresponding
 to different levels of support. We refer to these as type A, type B,
 and type C.
3.1. Conceptual Data Structures for Hosts
 Type A hosts ignore default router preferences and more-specific
 routes. They use the conceptual data structures described in
 Neighbor Discovery [RFC2461].
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 Type B hosts use a Default Router List augmented with preference
 values, but ignore all Route Information Options. They use the
 Default Router Preference value in the Router Advertisement header.
 They ignore Route Information Options.
 Type C hosts use a Routing Table instead of a Default Router List.
 (The Routing Table may also subsume the Prefix List, but that is
 beyond the scope of this document.) Entries in the Routing Table
 have a prefix, prefix length, preference value, lifetime, and next-
 hop router. Type C hosts use both the Default Router Preference
 value in the Router Advertisement header and Route Information
 Options.
 When a type C host receives a Router Advertisement, it modifies its
 Routing Table as follows. When processing a Router Advertisement, a
 type C host first updates a ::/0 route based on the Router Lifetime
 and Default Router Preference in the Router Advertisement message
 header. Then as the host processes Route Information Options in the
 Router Advertisement message body, it updates its routing table for
 each such option. The Router Preference and Lifetime values in a
 ::/0 Route Information Option override the preference and lifetime
 values in the Router Advertisement header. Updating each route is
 done as follows. A route is located in the Routing Table based on
 the prefix, prefix length, and next-hop router. If the received
 route's lifetime is zero, the route is removed from the Routing Table
 if present. If a route's lifetime is non-zero, the route is added to
 the Routing Table if not present and the route's lifetime and
 preference is updated if the route is already present.
 For example, suppose hosts receive a Router Advertisement from router
 X with a Router Lifetime of 100 seconds and a Default Router
 Preference of Medium. The body of the Router Advertisement contains
 a Route Information Option for ::/0 with a Route Lifetime of 200
 seconds and a Route Preference of Low. After processing the Router
 Advertisement, a type A host will have an entry for router X in its
 Default Router List with a lifetime of 100 seconds. If a type B host
 receives the same Router Advertisement, it will have an entry for
 router X in its Default Router List with a Medium preference and a
 lifetime of 100 seconds. A type C host will have an entry in its
 Routing Table for ::/0 -> router X, with a Low preference and a
 lifetime of 200 seconds. During processing of the Router
 Advertisement, a type C host MAY have a transient state, in which it
 has an entry in its Routing Table for ::/0 -> router X with a Medium
 preference and a lifetime of 100 seconds.
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3.2. Conceptual Sending Algorithm for Hosts
 Type A hosts use the conceptual sending algorithm described in
 Neighbor Discovery [RFC2461].
 When a type B host does next-hop determination and consults its
 Default Router List, it primarily prefers reachable routers over
 non-reachable routers and secondarily uses the router preference
 values. If the host has no information about the router's
 reachability, then the host assumes the router is reachable.
 When a type C host does next-hop determination and consults its
 Routing Table for an off-link destination, it searches its routing
 table to find the route with the longest prefix that matches the
 destination, using route preference values as a tie-breaker if
 multiple matching routes have the same prefix length. If the best
 route points to a non-reachable router, this router is remembered for
 the algorithm described in Section 3.5 below, and the next best route
 is consulted. This check is repeated until a matching route is found
 that points to a reachable router, or no matching routes remain.
 Again, if the host has no information about the router's
 reachability, then the host assumes the router is reachable.
 If there are no routes matching the destination (i.e., no default
 routes and no more-specific routes), then a type C host SHOULD
 discard the packet and report a Destination Unreachable/No Route To
 Destination error to the upper layer.
3.3. Destination Cache Management
 When a type C host processes a Router Advertisement and updates its
 conceptual Routing Table, it MUST invalidate or remove Destination
 Cache Entries and redo next-hop determination for destinations
 affected by the Routing Table changes.
3.4. Client Configurability
 Type B and C hosts MAY be configurable with preference values that
 override the values in Router Advertisements received. This is
 especially useful for dealing with routers that may not support
 preferences.
3.5. Router Reachability Probing
 When a host avoids using any non-reachable router X and instead sends
 a data packet to another router Y, and the host would have used
 router X if router X were reachable, then the host SHOULD probe each
 such router X's reachability by sending a single Neighbor
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 Solicitation to that router's address. A host MUST NOT probe a
 router's reachability in the absence of useful traffic that the host
 would have sent to the router if it were reachable. In any case,
 these probes MUST be rate-limited to no more than one per minute per
 router.
 This requirement allows the host to discover when router X becomes
 reachable and to start using router X at that time. Otherwise, the
 host might not notice router X's reachability and continue to use the
 less-desirable router Y until the next Router Advertisement is sent
 by X. Note that the router may have been unreachable for reasons
 other than being down (e.g., a switch in the middle being down), so
 it may be up to 30 minutes (the maximum advertisement period) before
 the next Router Advertisement would be sent.
 For a type A host (following the algorithm in [RFC2461]), no probing
 is needed since all routers are equally preferable. A type B or C
 host, on the other hand, explicitly probes unreachable, preferable
 routers to notice when they become reachable again.
3.6. Example
 Suppose a type C host has four entries in its Routing Table:
 ::/0 -> router W with a Medium preference
 2002::/16 -> router X with a Medium preference
 2001:db8::/32-> router Y with a High preference
 2001:db8::/32-> router Z with a Low preference
 and the host is sending to 2001:db8::1, an off-link destination. If
 all routers are reachable, then the host will choose router Y. If
 router Y is not reachable, then router Z will be chosen and the
 reachability of router Y will be probed. If routers Y and Z are not
 reachable, then router W will be chosen and the reachability of
 routers Y and Z will be probed. If routers W, Y, and Z are all not
 reachable, then the host should use Y while probing the reachability
 of W and Z. Router X will never be chosen because its prefix does
 not match the destination.
4. Router Configuration
 Routers SHOULD NOT advertise preferences or routes by default. In
 particular, they SHOULD NOT "dump out" their entire routing table to
 hosts.
 Routers MAY have a configuration mode in which an announcement of a
 specific prefix is dependent on a specific condition, such as
 operational status of a link or presence of the same or another
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 prefix in the routing table installed by another source, such as a
 dynamic routing protocol. If done, router implementations SHOULD
 make sure that announcement of prefixes to hosts is decoupled from
 the routing table dynamics to prevent an excessive load on hosts
 during periods of routing instability. In particular, unstable
 routes SHOULD NOT be announced to hosts until their stability has
 improved.
 Routers SHOULD NOT send more than 17 Route Information Options in
 Router Advertisements per link. This arbitrary bound is meant to
 reinforce that relatively few and carefully selected routes should be
 advertised to hosts.
 The preference values (both Default Router Preferences and Route
 Preferences) SHOULD NOT be routing metrics or automatically derived
 from metrics: the preference values SHOULD be configured.
 The information contained in Router Advertisements may change through
 the actions of system management. For instance, the lifetime or
 preference of advertised routes may change, or new routes could be
 added. In such cases, the router MAY transmit up to
 MAX_INITIAL_RTR_ADVERTISEMENTS unsolicited advertisements, using the
 same rules as in [RFC2461]. When ceasing to be an advertising
 interface and sending Router Advertisements with a Router Lifetime of
 zero, the Router Advertisement SHOULD also set the Route Lifetime to
 zero in all Route Information Options.
4.1. Guidance to Administrators
 The High and Low (non-default) preference values should only be used
 when someone with knowledge of both routers and the network topology
 configures them explicitly. For example, it could be a common
 network administrator, or it could be a customer request to different
 administrators managing the routers.
 As one exception to this general rule, the administrator of a router
 that does not have a connection to the Internet, or is connected
 through a firewall that blocks general traffic, should configure the
 router to advertise a Low Default Router Preference.
 In addition, the administrator of a router should configure the
 router to advertise a specific route for the site prefix of the
 network(s) to which the router belongs. The administrator may also
 configure the router to advertise specific routes for directly
 connected subnets and any shorter prefixes for networks to which the
 router belongs.
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 For example, if a home user sets up a tunnel into a firewalled
 corporate network, the access router on the corporate network end of
 the tunnel should advertise itself as a default router, but with a
 Low preference. Furthermore, the corporate router should advertise a
 specific route for the corporate site prefix. The net result is that
 destinations in the corporate network will be reached via the tunnel,
 and general Internet destinations will be reached via the home ISP.
 Without these mechanisms, the home machine might choose to send
 Internet traffic into the corporate network or corporate traffic into
 the Internet, leading to communication failure because of the
 firewall.
 It is worth noting that the network administrator setting up
 preferences and/or more specific routes in Routing Advertisements
 typically does not know which kind of nodes (Type A, B, and/or C)
 will be connected to its links. This requires that the administrator
 configure the settings that will work in an optimal fashion
 regardless of which kinds of nodes will be attached. Two examples of
 how to do so follow.
5. Examples
5.1. Best Router for ::/0 vs Router Least Likely to Redirect
 The best router for the default route is the router with the best
 route toward the wider Internet. The router least likely to redirect
 traffic depends on the actual traffic usage. The two concepts can be
 different when the majority of communication actually needs to go
 through some other router.
 For example, consider a situation in which you have a link with two
 routers, X and Y. Router X is the best for 2002::/16. (It's your
 6to4 site gateway.) Router Y is the best for ::/0. (It connects to
 the native IPv6 Internet.) Router X forwards native IPv6 traffic to
 router Y; router Y forwards 6to4 traffic to router X. If most
 traffic from this site is sent to 2002:/16 destinations, then router
 X is the one least likely to redirect.
 To make type A hosts work well, both routers should advertise
 themselves as default routers. In particular, if router Y goes down,
 type A hosts should send traffic to router X to maintain 6to4
 connectivity, so router X and router Y need to be default routers.
 To make type B hosts work well, router X should advertise itself with
 a High default router preference. This will cause type B hosts to
 prefer router X, minimizing the number of redirects.
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 To make type C hosts work well, router X should in addition advertise
 the ::/0 route with a Low preference and the 2002::/16 route with a
 Medium preference. A type C host will end up with three routes in
 its routing table: ::/0 -> router X (Low), ::/0 -> router Y (Medium),
 2002::/16 -> router X (Medium). It will send 6to4 traffic to router
 X and other traffic to router Y. Type C hosts will not cause any
 redirects.
 Note that when type C hosts process the Router Advertisement from
 router X, the Low preference for ::/0 overrides the High default
 router preference. If the ::/0 specific route were not present, then
 a type C host would apply the High default router preference to its
 ::/0 route to router X.
5.2. Multi-Homed Host and Isolated Network
 In another scenario, a multi-homed host is connected to the Internet
 via router X on one link and to an isolated network via router Y on
 another link. The multi-homed host might have a tunnel into a
 firewalled corporate network, or it might be directly connected to an
 isolated test network.
 In this situation, a type A multi-homed host (which has no default
 router preferences or more-specific routes) will have no way to
 intelligently choose between routers X and Y on its Default Router
 List. Users of the host will see unpredictable connectivity
 failures, depending on the destination address and the choice of
 router.
 If the routers are configured appropriately, a multi-homed type B
 host in this same situation would have stable Internet connectivity,
 but would have no connectivity to the isolated test network.
 If the routers are configured appropriately, a multi-homed type C
 host in this same situation can correctly choose between routers X
 and Y. For example, router Y on the isolated network should
 advertise a Route Information Option for the isolated network prefix.
 It might not advertise itself as a default router at all (zero Router
 Lifetime), or it might advertise itself as a default router with a
 Low preference. Router X should advertise itself as a default router
 with a Medium preference.
6. Security Considerations
 A malicious node could send Router Advertisement messages, specifying
 a High Default Router Preference or carrying specific routes, with
 the effect of pulling traffic away from legitimate routers. However,
 a malicious node could easily achieve this same effect in other ways.
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 For example, it could fabricate Router Advertisement messages with a
 zero Router Lifetime from the other routers, causing hosts to stop
 using the other routes. By advertising a specific prefix, this
 attack could be carried out in a less noticeable way. However, this
 attack has no significant incremental impact on Internet
 infrastructure security.
 A malicious node could also include an infinite lifetime in a Route
 Information Option causing the route to linger indefinitely. A
 similar attack already exists with Prefix Information Options in RFC
 2461, where a malicious node causes a prefix to appear as on-link
 indefinitely, resulting in a lack of connectivity if it is not. In
 contrast, an infinite lifetime in a Route Information Option will
 cause router reachability probing to continue indefinitely, but will
 not result in a lack of connectivity.
 Similarly, a malicious node could also try to overload hosts with a
 large number of routes in Route Information Options, or with very
 frequent Route Advertisements. Again, this same attack already
 exists with Prefix Information Options.
 [RFC3756] provides more details on the trust models, and there is
 work in progress in the SEND WG on securing router discovery messages
 that will address these problems.
7. IANA Considerations
 Section 2.3 defines a new Neighbor Discovery [RFC2461] option, the
 Route Information Option, which has been assigned the value 24 within
 the numbering space for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Option Formats.
8. Acknowledgements
 The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Balash
 Akbari, Steve Deering, Robert Elz, Tony Hain, Bob Hinden, Christian
 Huitema, JINMEI Tatuya, Erik Nordmark, Pekka Savola, Kresimir
 Segaric, and Brian Zill. The packet diagrams are derived from
 Neighbor Discovery [RFC2461].
9. Normative References
 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
 [RFC2461] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., and W. Simpson, "Neighbor
 Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2461, December
 1998.
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 [RFC3775] Johnson, D., Perkins, C., and J. Arkko, "Mobility Support
 in IPv6", RFC 3775, June 2004.
10. Informative References
 [RFC2080] Malkin, G. and R. Minnear, "RIPng for IPv6", RFC 2080,
 January 1997.
 [RFC2893] Gilligan, R. and E. Nordmark, "Transition Mechanisms for
 IPv6 Hosts and Routers", RFC 2893, August 2000.
 [RFC3056] Carpenter, B. and K. Moore, "Connection of IPv6 Domains via
 IPv4 Clouds", RFC 3056, February 2001.
 [RFC3756] Nikander, P., Kempf, J., and E. Nordmark, "IPv6 Neighbor
 Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats", RFC 3756, May
 2004.
Authors' Addresses
 Richard Draves
 Microsoft Research
 One Microsoft Way
 Redmond, WA 98052
 Phone: +1 425 706 2268
 EMail: richdr@microsoft.com
 Dave Thaler
 Microsoft
 One Microsoft Way
 Redmond, WA 98052
 Phone: +1 425 703 8835
 EMail: dthaler@microsoft.com
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