RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)

The Port Control Protocol allows an IPv6 or IPv4 host to control how incoming IPv6 or IPv4 packets are translated and forwarded by a Network Address…

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Outgoing relationships (31 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Normative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Normative reference — RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informative reference — RFC 3022: Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)
Informative reference — RFC 2136: Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)
Informative reference — RFC 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Informative reference — RFC 6146: Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
Informative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 6333: Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion
Informative reference — RFC 3007: Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update
Informative reference — RFC 5382: NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 6145: IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 6296: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
Informative reference — RFC 6888: Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs)
Informative reference — RFC 6092: Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service
Informative reference — RFC 4961: Symmetric RTP / RTP Control Protocol (RTCP)
Informative reference — RFC 3587: IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
Informative reference — RFC 6619: Scalable Operation of Address Translators with Per-Interface Bindings
Informative reference — RFC 6886: NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP)
Informative reference — RFC 3581: An Extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Symmetric Response Routing

Incoming relationships (29 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7488: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Server Selection
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7652: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Authentication Mechanism
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7843: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Third-Party ID Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6888: Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7084: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8811: DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6889: Analysis of Stateful 64 Translation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7269: NAT64 Deployment Options and Experience
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6970: Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Internet Gateway Device - Port Control Protocol Interworking Function (IGD-PCP IWF)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7291: DHCP Options for the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7648: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8683: Additional Deployment Guidelines for NAT64/464XLAT in Operator and Enterprise Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9313: Pros and Cons of IPv6 Transition Technologies for IPv4-as-a-Service (IPv4aaS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7393: Using the Port Control Protocol (PCP) to Update Dynamic DNS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7594: A Framework for Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance (LMAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7596: Lightweight 4over6: An Extension to the Dual-Stack Lite Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8765: DNS Push Notifications
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6886: NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7288: Reflections on Host Firewalls
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7422: Deterministic Address Mapping to Reduce Logging in Carrier-Grade NAT Deployments
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8782: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8803: 0-RTT TCP Convert Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8990: GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7857: Updates to Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7849: An IPv6 Profile for 3GPP Mobile Devices
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8764: Apple's DNS Long-Lived Queries Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9526: Simple Provisioning of Public Names for Residential Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9665: Service Registration Protocol for DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7600: IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A Stateless Solution (4rd)