A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : IPv6 Authentication Header Author(s) : R. Atkinson Filename : draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt Pages : 10 Date : 11/16/1994 The Internet community is working on a transition from version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) to version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). This memo describes the IPv6 Authentication Header. This optional header provides strong integrity and authentication for IPv6 datagrams. Non-repudiation might be provided by an authentication algorithm used with the Authentication Header, but it is not provided with all authentication algorithms that might be used. Confidentiality, and protection from traffic analysis are not provided by the Authentication Header. Users desiring confidentiality should consider using the IPv6 Encapsulating Security Protocol (ESP) either in lieu of or in conjunction with the Authentication Header. [NB: All references to "IPv6 Encapsulating Security Protocol" will be replaced with references to the "IPv6 Security Protocol (IPSP)" if/when such a document appears as an online Internet Draft]. This document assumes the reader has previously read and understood the related "IPv6 Security Overview" document which defines the overall security architecture for IPv6 and provides important background information for this specification. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.2) o Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) o Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) o US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) o US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. For questions, please mail to Internet-Drafts@cnri.reston.va.us. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.