RFC 4944: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks

This document describes the frame format for transmission of IPv6 packets and the method of forming IPv6 link-local addresses and statelessly autoconfigured…

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Outgoing relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
Informative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3756: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats
Informative reference — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers

Incoming relationships (36 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Updated by — RFC 8025: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Paging Dispatch
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8931: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment Recovery
Updated by — RFC 8066: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) ESC Dispatch Code Points and Guidelines
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8064: Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8138: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing Header
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6606: Problem Statement and Requirements for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7428: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ITU-T G.9959 Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7558: Requirements for Scalable DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) / Multicast DNS (mDNS) Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8105: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Ultra Low Energy (ULE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8930: On Forwarding 6LoWPAN Fragments over a Multi-Hop IPv6 Network
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6568: Design and Application Spaces for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8163: Transmission of IPv6 over Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8352: Energy-Efficient Features of Internet of Things Protocols
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6971: Depth-First Forwarding (DFF) in Unreliable Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8180: Minimal IPv6 over the TSCH Mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) Configuration
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9354: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Power Line Communication (PLC) Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8272: TinyIPFIX for Smart Meters in Constrained Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9428: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Near Field Communication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9453: Applicability and Use Cases for IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6lo)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7959: Block-Wise Transfers in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8928: Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8724: SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7668: IPv6 over BLUETOOTH(R) Low Energy
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8065: Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Adaptation-Layer Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9176: Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Resource Directory
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7554: Using IEEE 802.15.4e Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) in the Internet of Things (IoT): Problem Statement
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6345: Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA) Relay Element
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9914: Root-Initiated Routing State in the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9952: Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) ID for CoAP over DTLS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8137: IEEE 802.15.4 Information Element for the IETF
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)