[AusNOG] "How to use IPv6 Link-Local Addresses in Applications"

[Mark Smith]

Hi,

People on this list who do any sort of IPv6 network programming (which
in theory will eventually be all of us) might be interested in this
Internet Draft. Even if you aren't interested in the programming
related parts of it, the section on the attributes of the Link-Local
Prefix and Addresses is probably useful to know, as always present
Link-Locals are one of the more significant differences between IPv4
and IPv6.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to email me off-list.

Regards,
Mark.


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Date: 19 October 2015 at 21:04
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A new version of I-D, draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt
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IETF repository.

Name:           draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps
Revision:       00
Title:          How to use IPv6 Link-Local Addresses in Applications
Document date:  2015-10-19
Group:          Individual Submission
Pages:          9
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt
Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps/
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00


Abstract:
   IPv6 Link-Local addresses can be used by applications.  Doing so when
   possible will provide robustness and security benefits to the
   application.  This memo describes the properties of Link-Local
   addresses and the benefits and limitations of using them in
   applications.  It then describes how to use them in applications that
   use the Sockets API.




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