RFC 3542: Advanced Sockets Application Program Interface (API) for IPv6

This document provides sockets Application Program Interface (API) to support "advanced" IPv6 applications, as a supplement to a separate specification, RFC…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 2292: Advanced Sockets API for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 3493: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 4038: Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6458: Sockets API Extensions for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4795: Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5014: IPv6 Socket API for Source Address Selection
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6897: Multipath TCP (MPTCP) Application Interface Considerations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 10001: Operational Guidelines for DNS Transport in Mixed IPv4/IPv6 Environments