Entering IPv6 Zone Identifiers in User Interfaces

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 8
Abstract: This document describes how the zone identifier of an IPv6 scoped address, defined in the IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture specification (RFC 4007), should be entered into a user interface. This document obsoletes RFC 6874 and updates RFCs 4007, 7622, and 8089.
Publication Date: 2025-08-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9844
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9844
Author(s): Brian E. Carpenter
Bob Hinden

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Normative Reference(s)

IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4007 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4291 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5952 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8174 [Active*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

10.1109-IEEESTD.2024.10555529 — POSIX EXTERNAL
IETF.draft-ietf-6man-rfc6874bis-09 — I-D.ietf-6man-rfc6874bis EXTERNAL
IETF.draft-ietf-v6ops-6mops-01 — I-D.ietf-v6ops-6mops EXTERNAL
IETF.draft-schinazi-httpbis-link-local-uri-bcp-03 — I-D.schinazi-httpbis-link-local-uri-bcp EXTERNAL
NMEA, "OneNet Marine IPv6 Ethernet Networking Standard", 2025, <https://www.nmea.org/nmea-onenet.html>. EXTERNAL
Jin, P., "Snippets: IPv6 link-local connect hack", 2021, <https://web.archive.org/web/20210725030713/https://website.peterjin.org/wiki/Snippets:IPv6_link_local_connect_hack>. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1918 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3493 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 6454 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6874 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 6991 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7622 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8089 [Active*]
RFC8925 — RFC8925 EXTERNAL

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