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6MAN                                                         N. Buraglio
Internet-Draft                                   Energy Sciences Network
Updates: 6724 (if approved)                                     T. Chown
Intended status: Standards Track                                    Jisc
Expires: 5 July 2024                                           J. Duncan
                                                        Tachyon Dynamics
                                                          2 January 2024


        Preference for IPv6 ULAs over IPv4 addresses in RFC6724
                   draft-ietf-6man-rfc6724-update-06

Abstract

   When [RFC6724] was published it defined an address selection
   algorithm along with a default policy table, and noted a number of
   examples where that policy table might benefit from adjustment for
   specific scenarios.  It also noted that it is important for
   implementations to provide a way to change the default policies as
   more experience is gained.  This update draws on several years of
   operational experience to refine RFC 6724 further, with particular
   emphasis on preference for the use of ULA addresses over IPv4
   addresses and the addition of mandatory support for Rule 5.5.  The
   update also demotes the preference for 6to4 addresses.  The changes
   to default behavior improve supportability of common use cases,
   including automatic / unmanaged scenarios.  It is recognized that
   some less common deployment scenarios may require explicit
   configuration or custom changes to achieve desired operational
   parameters.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Operational Issues Regarding Preference for IPv4 addresses over
           ULAs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Preference of 6to4 addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Adjustments to RFC 6724 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     5.1.  Policy Table Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     5.2.  Rule 5.5  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     5.3.  Automatic insertion of prefixes in the policy table . . .   6
   6.  Configuration of the default policy table . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  Intended behaviors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     7.1.  GUA-GUA preferred over IPv4-IPv4  . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     7.2.  GUA-GUA preferred over ULA-ULA  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     7.3.  ULA-ULA preferred over IPv4-IPv4  . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     7.4.  IPv4-IPv4 preferred over ULA-GUA  . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  Discussion of ULA source with GUA or remote ULA
           destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.1.  The ULA Label and its Precedence  . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     8.2.  Happy Eyeballs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     8.3.  Try the Next Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   9.  Following ULA operational guidelines in RFC 4193  . . . . . .   9
     9.1.  Filtering ULA-source addresses at site borders  . . . . .   9
     9.2.  Avoid using ULA addresses in the global DNS . . . . . . .  10
   10. The practicalities of implementing address selection
           support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   11. Limitations of RFC 6724 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   12. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   13. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   14. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   15. Appendix A.  Changes and additional text since RFC 6724 . . .  12
   16. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     16.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12



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     16.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

   Since its publication in 2012, [RFC6724] has become an important
   mechanism by which nodes can perform address selection, deriving the
   most appropriate source and destination address pair to use from a
   candidate set by following the procedures defined in the RFC.  Part
   of the process involves the use of a policy table, where the
   precedence and labels for address prefixes are listed, and for which
   a default table is defined.

   It was always expected that the default policy table may need to be
   changed based on operational experience; section 2.1 says "It is
   important that implementations provide a way to change the default
   policies as more experience is gained" and points to the examples in
   Section 10, which include Section 10.6 where a ULA example is
   presented.

   This document is written on the basis of such operational experience,
   in particular for scenarios where ULAs are used for their intended
   purpose as stated in [RFC4193], i.e., they designed to be routed
   inside of a local site and by default not received from or advertised
   externally.  It also includes updated requirements on support for RFC
   6724 Rule 5.5.  The goal of the document is to improve behavior for
   common scenarios, and to assist in the phasing out of use of IPv4,
   while noting that some specific scenarios may still require explicit
   configuration.

   An IPv6 deployment, whether enterprise, residential or other, may use
   combinations of IPv6 GUAs, IPv6 ULAs, IPv4 globals, IPv4 RFC 1918
   addressing, and may or may not use some form of NAT.  However, this
   document makes no comment or recommendation on how ULAs are used, or
   on the use of NAT in an IPv6 network.

2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.








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3.  Operational Issues Regarding Preference for IPv4 addresses over ULAs

   With multiaddressing being the norm for IPv6, moreso where nodes are
   dual-stack, the ability for a node to pick an appropriate address
   pair for communication is very important.

   Where getaddrinfo() or a comparable API is used, the sorting behavior
   should take into account both the source addresses of the requesting
   node as well as the destination addresses returned, and sort the
   candidate address pairs following the procedures defined in RFC 6724.

   The current default policy table leads to preference for IPv6 GUAs
   over IPv4 globals, which is widely considered preferential behavior
   to support greater use of IPv6 in dual-stack environments.  This
   helps allow sites to phase out IPv4 as its evidenced use becomes ever
   lower.

   However, the same default policy table also puts IPv6 ULAs below all
   IPv4 addresses, including [RFC1918] addresses.  For many site
   operators this behavior will be counter-intuitive, and may create
   difficulties with respect to planning, operational, and security
   implications for environments where ULA addressing is used in IPv4/
   IPv6 dual-stack network scenarios.  The expected default
   prioritization of IPv6 traffic over IPv4 by default, as happens with
   IPv6 GUA addressing, does not happen for ULAs.

   As a result, the use of ULAs is not a viable option for dual-stack
   networking transition planning, large scale network modeling, network
   lab environments or other modes of large scale networking that run
   both IPv4 and IPv6 concurrently with the expectation that IPv6 will
   be preferred by default.

   This document updates the default policy table to elevate the
   preference for ULAs such that ULAs will be preferred over all IPv4
   addresses, providing more consistent and less confusing behavior for
   operators, and to assist operators in phasing out IPv4 from dual-
   stack environments, since by this update IPv6 GUAs and ULAs will be
   preferred over any IPv4 addresses.  This is an important enabler for
   sites seeking to move from dual-stack to IPv6-only networking.

   This change aims to improve the default handling of address selection
   for common cases, and unmanaged / automatic scenarios rather than
   those where DHCPv6 is deployed.  Sites using DHCPv6 for host
   configuration management can make use of implementations of [RFC7078]
   to apply changes to the [RFC6724] policy table.

   The changes are discussed in more detail in the following sections,
   with a further section providing a summary of the proposed updates.



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4.  Preference of 6to4 addresses

   The anycast prefix for 6to4 relays was deprecated by [RFC7526] in
   2015, and since that time the use of 6to4 addressing has further
   declined to the point where it is generally not seen and can be
   considered to all intents and purposes deprecated in use.

   This document therefore demotes the precedence of the 6to4 prefix in
   the policy table to the same minimum preference as carried by the
   deprecated site local and 6bone address prefixes.

5.  Adjustments to RFC 6724

   This update makes two specific changes to RFC 6724: first to update
   the default policy table, and second to change Rule 5.5 on prefering
   addresses in a prefix advertised by the next-hop to a MUST.

5.1.  Policy Table Update

   This update alters the default policy table listed in Rule 2.1 of RFC
   6724.

   The table below reflects the current RFC 6724 state on the left, and
   the updated state defined by this RFC on the right:

                    RFC 6724                                Updated
      Prefix        Precedence Label          Prefix        Precedence Label
      ::1/128               50     0          ::1/128               50     0
      ::/0                  40     1          ::/0                  40     1
      ::ffff:0:0/96         35     4          ::ffff:0:0/96         20     4 (*)
      2002::/16             30     2          2002::/16              5     2 (*)
      2001::/32              5     5          2001::/32              5     5
      fc00::/7               3    13          fc00::/7              30    13 (*)
      ::/96                  1     3          ::/96                  1     3
      fec0::/10              1    11          fec0::/10              1     11
      3ffe::/16              1    12          3ffe::/16              1     12

 (*) value(s) changed in update

   The update moves 2002::/16 to de-preference its status in line with
   [RFC7526] and moves the precedence of fc00::/7 above legacy IPv4,
   with ::ffff:0:0/96 now set to precedence 20.

5.2.  Rule 5.5

   The heuristic for address selection defined in Rule 5.5 of Section 5
   of RFC 6724 to prefer addresses in a prefix advertised by a next-hop
   router has proven to be very useful.



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   The text in RFC 6724 states that the Rules MUST be followed in order,
   but also includes a discussion note under Rule 5.5 that says that an
   IPv6 implementation is not required to remember which next-hops
   advertised which prefixes and thus that Rule 5.5 is only applicable
   to implementations that track this information.

   This document elevates the requirement to prefer addresses in a
   prefix advertised by a next-hop router to a MUST for all nodes.

5.3.  Automatic insertion of prefixes in the policy table

   Section 2.1 of RFC 6724 states that "an implementation MAY
   automatically add additional site-specific rows to the default table
   based on its configured addresses, such as for Unique Local Addresses
   (ULAs)".

   Given this document now elevates ULAs above all IPv4 addresses for
   address selection, should an implementation choose to insert specific
   ULA prefixes into the policy table, e.g., based on observed Router
   Advertisements (RAs) [RFC4861] and their Prefix Information Options
   (PIOs) or Route Information Options (RIOs) [RFC4191], it SHOULD give
   such "known local" prefixes a precedence of 45, and SHOULD also
   reduce the precedence of other ULA addresses, i.e., the general
   fc07::/7 prefix, to precedence 10, such that IPv4 would be preferred
   to ULA prefixes that have not been explicitly added.

6.  Configuration of the default policy table

   As stated in Section 2.1 of RFC 6724 "IPv6 implementations SHOULD
   support configurable address selection via a mechanism at least as
   powerful as the policy tables defined here".

   While this document defines changes to RFC 6724 behavior based on
   operational experience to date, it is important that node policy
   tables can be changed once deployed to support future emerging use
   cases.  This update thus re-states the importance of such
   configurability.

7.  Intended behaviors

   In this section we reiew the intended default behaviors after this
   update is applied.

7.1.  GUA-GUA preferred over IPv4-IPv4

   This is the current behaviour, and remains unaltered.  The rationale
   is to promote use of IPv6 GUAs in dual-stack environments.




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7.2.  GUA-GUA preferred over ULA-ULA

   This is the current behaviour, and remains unaltered.  Both cases
   have matching labels, with GUAs having higher precedence.

7.3.  ULA-ULA preferred over IPv4-IPv4

   This is a change introduced by this update.  RFC 6724 as originally
   defined would lead to IPv4 being preferred over ULAs, which is
   contrary to the spirit of the GUA preference over IPv4, and to the
   goal of removing evidenced use of IPv4 in a dual-stack site before
   transitioning to IPv6-only.

7.4.  IPv4-IPv4 preferred over ULA-GUA

   An IPv6 ULA address will only be preferred over an IPv4 address if
   both IPv6 ULA source and destination addresses are available.  With
   Rule 5 of Section 6 of RFC 6724 and the ULA-specific label added in
   [RFC6724] (which was not present in [RFC3484]) an IPv4 source and
   destination will be preferred over an IPv6 ULA source and an IPv6 GUA
   destination address, even though generally IPv6 ULA addresses are
   preferred over IPv4 in the policy table as proposed in this update.
   The IPv4 matching label trumps ULA-GUA.

8.  Discussion of ULA source with GUA or remote ULA destination

   In this section we present a discussion on the specific cases where a
   ULA source may be communicating with a GUA or ULA destination.

   A potential problem exists when a ULA source attempts to communicate
   with GUA or remote ULA destinations.  In these scenarios, the ULA
   source as stated earlier is by default intended for communication
   only with the local network, meaning an individual site, several
   sites that are part of the same organization, or multiple sites
   across cooperating organizations, as detailed in RFC 4193.  As a
   result, most GUA and ULA destinations are not attached to the same
   local network as the ULA source and are, therefore, not reachable
   from the ULA source.

   When only a ULA source is available for communication with GUA
   destinations, this generally implies no connectivity to the IPv6
   Internet is available.  Otherwise, a GUA source would have been made
   available and selected for use with GUA destinations.  As a result,
   the ULA source will typically fail when it attempts to communicate
   with most GUA destinations.  However, corner cases exist where the
   ULA source will not fail, such as when GUA destinations are attached
   to the same local network as the ULA source.




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   Receiving a DNS response for a ULA destination that is not attached
   to the local network, in other words, a remote ULA destination, is
   considered a misconfiguration in most cases, or at least this
   contradicts the operational guidelines provided in Section 4.4 of RFC
   4193.  Nevertheless, this can occur, and the ULA source will
   typically fail when it attempts to communicate with ULA destinations
   that are not attached to the same local network as the ULA source.

   This section discusses several complementary mechanisms involved with
   these scenarios.

8.1.  The ULA Label and its Precedence

   RFC 6724 added (in obsoleting RFC 3484) a separate label for ULA
   (fc00::/7), whose default precedence is raised by this update.  This
   separate label interacts with Rule 5 of Section 6 of RFC 6724, which
   says;

  Rule 5: Prefer matching label.
  If Label(Source(DA)) = Label(DA) and Label(Source(DB)) <> Label(DB), then prefer DA.  Similarly, if       Label(Source(DA)) <> Label(DA) and Label(Source(DB)) = Label(DB), then prefer DB.

   The ULA source label will not match the GUA destination label in the
   first scenario.  Therefore, an IPv4 destination, if available, will
   be preferred over a GUA destination with a ULA source, even though
   the GUA destination has higher precedence than the IPv4 destination
   in the policy table.  This means the IPv4 destination will be moved
   up in the list of destinations over the GUA destination with the ULA
   source.

   If the ULA (fc00::/7) label is removed from the policy table, a GUA
   destination with a ULA source will be preferred over an IPv4
   destination, as GUA and ULA will be part of the same label (::/0).

   The ULA source label will match the ULA destination label in the
   second scenario; therefore, whether part of the local network or not,
   a ULA destination will be preferred over an IPv4 destination.

   If the ULA label (fc00::/7) has its precedence lowered below IPv4 or
   the IPv4 precedence is raised above ULA, an IPv4 destination will be
   preferred over all ULA destinations.











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8.2.  Happy Eyeballs

   Regardless of the preference resulting from the above discussion,
   Happy Eyeballs version 1 [RFC6555] or version 2 [RFC8305], if
   implemented, will try both the GUA or ULA destination with the ULA
   source and the IPv4 destination and source pairings.  The ULA source
   will typically fail to communicate with most GUA or remote ULA
   destinations, and IPv4 will be preferred if IPv4 connectivity is
   available unless the GUA or ULA destinations are attached to the same
   local network as the ULA source.

8.3.  Try the Next Address

   As stated in Section 2 of RFC 6724,

  Well-behaved applications SHOULD NOT simply use the first address returned from an API such as
  getaddrinfo() and then give up if it fails. For many applications, it is appropriate to iterate
  through the list of addresses returned from getaddrinfo() until a working address is found. For
  other applications, it might be appropriate to try multiple addresses in parallel (e.g., with some
  small delay in between) and use the first one to succeed.

   Therefore, when an IPv4 destination is preferred over GUA or ULA
   destinations, IPv4 will likely succeed if IPv4 connectivity is
   available, and the GUA or ULA destination may only be tried if Happy
   Eyeballs is implemented.

   On the other hand, if the GUA or ULA destination with the ULA source
   is preferred, the ULA source will typically fail to communicate GUA
   or ULA destinations that are not connected to the same local network
   as the ULA source.  However, if the operational guidelines in
   Section 4.3 of RFC 4193 are followed, recognizing this failure can be
   accelerated, and transport layer timeouts (e.g., TCP) can be avoided.
   The guidelines will cause a Destination Unreachable ICMPv6 Error to
   be received by the source device, signaling the next address in the
   list to be tried, as discussed above.

9.  Following ULA operational guidelines in RFC 4193

   This section re-emphasises two important operational requirements
   stated in [RFC4193] that should be followed by operators.

9.1.  Filtering ULA-source addresses at site borders

   Section 4.3 states "Site border routers and firewalls should be
   configured to not forward any packets with Local IPv6 source or
   destination addresses outside of the site, unless they have been
   explicitly configured with routing information about specific /48 or
   longer Local IPv6 prefixes".



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   And further that "Site border routers should respond with the
   appropriate ICMPv6 Destination Unreachable message to inform the
   source that the packet was not forwarded".

   As stated in the above discussion, such ICMPv6 messages can assist in
   fast failover for TCP connections.

9.2.  Avoid using ULA addresses in the global DNS

   Section 4.3 of RFC 4193 states that "AAAA and PTR records for locally
   assigned local IPv6 addresses are not recommended to be installed in
   the global DNS."

   This is particularly important given this document elevates the
   priority for ULAs above IPv4.

10.  The practicalities of implementing address selection support

   As with most adjustments to standards, and using the introduction of
   RFC 6724 as a measuring stick, the updates defined in this document
   will likely take several years to become common enough for consistent
   behavior within most operating systems.  At the time of writing, it
   has been over 10 years since RFC 6724 has been published but we
   continue to see existing commercial and open source operating systems
   exhibiting RFC 3484 behavior.

   While it should be noted that RFC 6724 defines a solution to adjust
   the address preference selection table that is functional
   theoretically, operationally the solution is operating system
   dependent and in practice policy table changes cannot be signaled by
   any currently deployed network mechanism.  While RFC 7078 defines
   such a DHCPv6 option, it is not widely implemented.  This lack of an
   intra-protocol or network-based ability to adjust address selection
   preference, along with the inability to adjust a notable number of
   operating systems either programmatically or manually, renders
   operational scalability of such a mechanism challenging.

   It is especially important to note this behavior in the long
   lifecycle equipment that exists in industrial control and operational
   technology environments due to their very long mean time to
   replacement/lifecycle.

11.  Limitations of RFC 6724

   The procedures defined in RFC 6724 do not give optimal results for
   all scenarios.  As stated in the introduction, the aim of this update
   is to improve the behavior for the most common scenarios.




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   It is widely recognised in the IETF 6man WG that the whole 3484/6724/
   getaddrinfo() model is fundamentally inadequate for optimal address
   selection.  A model that considers address pairs directly, rather
   than sorting on destination addresses with the best source for that
   address, would be preferable, but beyond the scope of this document.

   To simplify address selection, operators may instead look to deploy
   IPv6-only, and may choose to only use GUA addresses and no ULA
   addresses.  Other approaches to reduce the use of IPv4, e.g., through
   use of DHCPv4 Option 108 as defined in [RFC8925], also helps simplify
   address selection for nodes.

12.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to acknowledge the valuable input and
   contributions of the 6man WG including (in alphabetic order) Erik
   Auerswald, Dale Carder, Brian Carpenter, Tom Coffeen, Lorenzo
   Colitti, Chris Cummings, David Farmer (in particular for the ULA to
   GUA/ULA discussion text), Bob Hinden, Scott Hogg, Ed Horley, Ted
   Lemon, Jen Linkova, Michael Richardson, Kyle Rose, Mark Smith, Ole
   Troan, Eduard Vasilenko, Eric Vyncke, Paul Wefel, Timothy Winters,
   and XiPeng Xiao.

13.  Security Considerations

   There are no direct security considerations in this document.

   The mixed preference for IPv6 over IPv4 from the default policy table
   in RFC 6724 represents a potential security issue, given an operator
   may expect ULAs to be used when in practice RFC 1918 addresses are
   used instead.

   The requirements of RFC4193, stated earlier in this document, should
   be followed for optimal behavior.

   Operators should be mindful of cases where communicating nodes have
   differing behaviours for address selection, e.g., RFC3484 behavior,
   RFC6724, the updated RFC6724 behavior defined here, some other non-
   IETF-standardized behavior, or even no mechanism.  There may thus be
   inconsistent behaviour for communications initiated in each
   direction.  Ultimately all nodes should be made compliant to the
   updated specification described in this document.

14.  IANA Considerations

   None.





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15.  Appendix A.  Changes and additional text since RFC 6724

   *  Changed default policy table to move fc00::/7 to precedence 30,
      above legacy IPv4.

   *  Changed default policy table to move 6to4 address block 2002::/16
      to the same as 6bone and deprecated site-local.

   *  Changed ::ffff:0:0/96 to precedence 20.

   *  Changed Rule 5.5 to a MUST support.

   *  Added note on precedence for general ULAs where specific ULAs are
      inserted in the policy table.

   *  Added text clarifying intended behaviors.

   *  Added text discussing ULA to GUA/ULA case.

   *  Added text for the security section.

16.  References

16.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC4193]  Hinden, R. and B. Haberman, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
              Addresses", RFC 4193, DOI 10.17487/RFC4193, October 2005,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4193>.

   [RFC7078]  Matsumoto, A., Fujisaki, T., and T. Chown, "Distributing
              Address Selection Policy Using DHCPv6", RFC 7078,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7078, January 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7078>.

   [RFC7526]  Troan, O. and B. Carpenter, Ed., "Deprecating the Anycast
              Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers", BCP 196, RFC 7526,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7526, May 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7526>.

   [RFC8925]  Colitti, L., Linkova, J., Richardson, M., and T.
              Mrugalski, "IPv6-Only Preferred Option for DHCPv4",
              RFC 8925, DOI 10.17487/RFC8925, October 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8925>.



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   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

16.2.  Informative References

   [RFC6724]  Thaler, D., Ed., Draves, R., Matsumoto, A., and T. Chown,
              "Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6
              (IPv6)", RFC 6724, DOI 10.17487/RFC6724, September 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6724>.

   [RFC1918]  Rekhter, Y., Moskowitz, B., Karrenberg, D., de Groot, G.
              J., and E. Lear, "Address Allocation for Private
              Internets", BCP 5, RFC 1918, DOI 10.17487/RFC1918,
              February 1996, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1918>.

   [RFC3484]  Draves, R., "Default Address Selection for Internet
              Protocol version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 3484,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3484, February 2003,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3484>.

   [RFC6555]  Wing, D. and A. Yourtchenko, "Happy Eyeballs: Success with
              Dual-Stack Hosts", RFC 6555, DOI 10.17487/RFC6555, April
              2012, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6555>.

   [RFC8305]  Schinazi, D. and T. Pauly, "Happy Eyeballs Version 2:
              Better Connectivity Using Concurrency", RFC 8305,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8305, December 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8305>.

   [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
              "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

   [RFC4191]  Draves, R. and D. Thaler, "Default Router Preferences and
              More-Specific Routes", RFC 4191, DOI 10.17487/RFC4191,
              November 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4191>.

Authors' Addresses

   Nick Buraglio
   Energy Sciences Network
   Email: buraglio@forwardingplane.net


   Tim Chown
   Jisc



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   Email: Tim.Chown@jisc.ac.uk


   Jeremy Duncan
   Tachyon Dynamics
   Email: jduncan@tachyondynamics.com













































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