RFC 5058: Explicit Multicast (Xcast) Concepts and Options

While traditional IP multicast schemes (RFC 1112) are scalable for very large multicast groups, they have scalability issues with a very large number of…

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Outgoing relationships (18 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 1112: Host extensions for IP multicasting
Informative reference — RFC 1812: Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
Informative reference — RFC 3376: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3
Informative reference — RFC 2003: IP Encapsulation within IP
Informative reference — RFC 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
Informative reference — RFC 4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers
Informative reference — RFC 1546: Host Anycasting Service
Informative reference — RFC 3068: An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers
Informative reference — RFC 3740: The Multicast Group Security Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 1075: Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 1770: IPv4 Option for Sender Directed Multi-Destination Delivery
Informative reference — RFC 2201: Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 2902: Overview of the 1998 IAB Routing Workshop