{"draft":"draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-08","doc_id":"RFC8021","title":"Generation of IPv6 Atomic Fragments Considered Harmful","authors":["F. Gont","W. Liu","T. Anderson"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"12","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IPv6 Maintenance","abstract":"This document discusses the security implications of the generation\r\nof IPv6 atomic fragments and a number of interoperability issues\r\nassociated with IPv6 atomic fragments.  It concludes that the\r\naforementioned functionality is undesirable and thus documents the\r\nmotivation for removing this functionality from an upcoming revision\r\nof the core IPv6 protocol specification (RFC 2460).","pub_date":"January 2017","keywords":["attack","DoS","Extension Headers"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8021","errata_url":null}