rfc-7721

Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms

A. Cooper, F. Gont, D. Thaler
date2016-03 streamIETF areaint wg6man statusINFORMATIONAL pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7721 doi10.17487/RFC7721
This document discusses privacy and security considerations for several IPv6 address generation mechanisms, both standardized and non-standardized. It evaluates how different mechanisms mitigate different threats and the trade-offs that implementors, developers, and users face in choosing different addresses or address generation mechanisms.