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		pantalaimon on May 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6 RFC 2460 dates back to 1998 [0]. There was an updated standard published as RFC 8200 [1] in 2017, but it is not uncommon that standards get updated by a new revision - the current standard is just as 'finalized' as the 1998 version was. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2460 [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8200

BlueTemplar on May 20, 2022 [–]

Hmm, but weren't there a lot of changes between 1998 and 2017 in terms of how IPv6 security should work ? (often changing random suffixes and such ?)

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