RFC 3513 IPv6 Addressing Architecture April 2003 Table of Contents 1. Introduction.................................................3 2. IPv6 Addressing..............................................3 2.1 Addressing Model.........................................4 2.2 Text Representation of Addresses.........................4 2.3 Text Representation of Address Prefixes..................5 2.4 Address Type Identification..............................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 Global Unicast Addresses..........................10 2.5.5 IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses.......10 2.5.6 Local-use IPv6 Unicast Addresses..................11 2.6 Anycast Addresses.......................................12 2.6.1 Required Anycast Address..........................13 2.7 Multicast Addresses.....................................13 2.7.1 Pre-Defined Multicast Addresses...................15 2.8 A Node's Required Addresses.............................17 3. Security Considerations.....................................17 4. IANA Considerations.........................................18 5. References..................................................19 5.1 Normative References....................................19 5.2 Informative References..................................19 APPENDIX A: Creating Modified EUI-64 format Interface IDs......21 APPENDIX B: Changes from RFC-2373..............................24 Authors' Addresses.............................................25 Full Copyright Statement.......................................26 Hinden & Deering Standards Track