{"draft":"draft-ietf-6man-prefixlen-p2p-01","doc_id":"RFC6164","title":"Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links","authors":["M. Kohno","B. Nitzan","R. Bush","Y. Matsuzaki","L. Colitti","T. Narten"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"8","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IPv6 Maintenance","abstract":"On inter-router point-to-point links, it is useful, for security and\r\nother reasons, to use 127-bit IPv6 prefixes.  Such a practice\r\nparallels the use of 31-bit prefixes in IPv4.  This document\r\nspecifies the motivation for, and usages of, 127-bit IPv6 prefix\r\nlengths on inter-router point-to-point links.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"April 2011","keywords":["[--------]","addressing","prefix length","security"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC6547"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6164","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6164"}