{
  "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": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "12",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "IPv6 Maintenance",
  "abstract": "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).",
  "pub_date": "January 2017",
  "keywords": [
    "attack",
    "DoS",
    "Extension Headers"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC8021",
  "errata_url": null
}