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RFC 6874: Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 9844.

Current version: RFC 9844 — Entering IPv6 Zone Identifiers in User Interfaces

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This document describes how the zone identifier of an IPv6 scoped address, defined as <zone_id> in the IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture (RFC 4007), can be represented in a literal IPv6 address and in a Uniform Resource Identifier that includes such a literal address. It updates the URI Generic Syntax specification (RFC 3986) accordingly.

Document record

Document ID
RFC6874
Published
February 2013
Authors
B. Carpenter; S. Cheshire; R. Hinden
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
10
Also known as
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Obsoleted by:
RFC 9844

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