rfc-9844

Entering IPv6 Zone Identifiers in User Interfaces

B. Carpenter, R. Hinden

date2025-08 streamIETF areaint wg6man statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages8 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9844 doi10.17487/RFC9844

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.

obsoletes

rfc-6874 — Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers

updates

rfc-4007 — IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture
rfc-7622 — Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format
rfc-8089 — The "file" URI Scheme