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RFC 9098
Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets with Extension Headers,September 2021
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- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Authors:
- F. Gont
N. Hilliard
G. Doering
W. Kumari
G. Huston
W. Liu - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- v6ops (ops)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9098
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Abstract
This document summarizes the operational implications of IPv6extension headers specified in the IPv6 protocol specification (RFC8200) and attempts to analyze reasons why packets with IPv6 extensionheaders are often dropped in the public Internet.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.