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PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 2460,RFC 4294

Authors:

J. Abley
P. Savola
G. Neville-Neil

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IETF

Source:

ipv6 (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5095

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Abstract

The functionality provided by IPv6's Type 0 Routing Header can beexploited in order to achieve traffic amplification over a remotepath for the purposes of generating denial-of-service traffic. Thisdocument updates the IPv6 specification to deprecate the use of IPv6Type 0 Routing Headers, in light of this security concern. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.