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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

E. Nordmark
M. Bagnulo

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IETF

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shim6 (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5533

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Abstract

This document defines the Shim6 protocol, a layer 3 shim forproviding locator agility below the transport protocols, so thatmultihoming can be provided for IPv6 with failover and load-sharingproperties, without assuming that a multihomed site will have aprovider-independent IPv6 address prefix announced in the global IPv6routing table. The hosts in a site that has multiple provider-allocated IPv6 address prefixes will use the Shim6 protocol specifiedin this document to set up state with peer hosts so that the statecan later be used to failover to a different locator pair, should theoriginal one stop working. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.