Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 15
Abstract: When a server's IPv4 path and protocol are working, but the server's IPv6 path and protocol are not working, a dual-stack client application experiences significant connection delay compared to an IPv4-only client. This is undesirable because it causes the dual- stack client to have a worse user experience. This document specifies requirements for algorithms that reduce this user-visible delay and provides an algorithm. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC6555
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6555
Author(s): Dan Wing
Andrew Yourtchenko

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IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3484 [Superseded*]

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Google, "Google over IPv6", < http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6 >. EXTERNAL
Perreault, S., "Happy Eyeballs in Erlang", February 2011, < http://www.viagenie.ca/news/ index.html#happy_eyeballs_erlang >. EXTERNAL
Matsumoto, A., Fujisaki, T., Kato, J., and T. Chown, "Distributing Address Selection Policy using DHCPv6", Work in Progress, February 2012. EXTERNAL
Andrews, M., "How to connect to a multi-homed server over TCP", January 2011, < http://www.isc.org/community/ blog/201101/how-to-connect-to-a-multi-homed-server- over-tcp >. EXTERNAL
Savolainen, T., Miettinen, N., Veikkolainen, S., Chown, T., and J. Morse, "Experiences of host behavior in broken IPv6 networks", March 2011, < http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/slides/ v6ops-12.pdf >. EXTERNAL
RFC1671 — RFC1671 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 4436 [Active*]
RFC5245 — RFC5245 EXTERNAL
RFC6059 — RFC6059 EXTERNAL
RFC6157 — RFC6157 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 6269 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6454 [Active*]

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IETF draft-thaler-appsawg-multi-transport-uris-01 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8305 [Active*]