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RFC 8021: Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments Considered Harmful

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This document discusses the security implications of the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments and a number of interoperability issues associated with IPv6 atomic fragments. It concludes that the aforementioned functionality is undesirable and thus documents the motivation for removing this functionality from an upcoming revision of the core IPv6 protocol specification (RFC 2460).

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Document ID
RFC8021
Published
January 2017
Authors
F. Gont; W. Liu; T. Anderson
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
int
Pages
12
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