24 points porridgeraisin 2 hours ago 3 comments

Alifatisk 36 minutes ago | parent

I guess the point with this to facilitate usage of IPv6.

simoncion 16 minutes ago | parent

The Abstract and Introduction sections of the RFC [0] explain what the point of this is. The "Changes Compared to RFC 5549" section is especially good reading, as it both alerts you to the fact that this is an update to a seventeen year old RFC and explains what changed in the update.

[0] <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8950>