A node which has an IPv6 protocol stack. In order for the stack to be usable the node must be assigned one or more IPv6 addresses.
IPv6 enabled node: A node which has an IPv6 protocol stack and is assigned one or more IPv6 addresses. Both IPv6-only and IPv6/IPv4 nodes are IPv6 enabled.
2.1. Addresses
In addition to the forms of addresses defined in [ADDR-ARCH] this document also introduces the new form of IPv4-translated address. This is needed to avoid using IPv4-compatible addresses outside the intended use of automatic tunneling. Thus the address forms are:
IPv4-mapped: An address of the form 0::ffff:a.b.c.d which refers to a node that is not IPv6-capable. In addition to its use in the API this protocol uses IPv4-mapped addresses in IPv6 packets to refer to an IPv4 node.
IPv4-compatible: An address of the form 0::0:a.b.c.d which refers to an IPv6/IPv4 node that supports automatic tunneling. Such addresses are not used in this protocol.
IPv4-translated: An address of the form 0::ffff:0:a.b.c.d which refers to an IPv6-enabled node. Note that the prefix 0::ffff:0:0:0/96 is chosen to checksum to zero to