RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums

This document provides an applicability statement for the use of UDP transport checksums with IPv6. It defines recommendations and requirements for the use of…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Informative reference — RFC 3828: The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)
Informative reference — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Informative reference — RFC 6830: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informative reference — RFC 1071: Computing the Internet checksum
Informative reference — RFC 5415: Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6438: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 4963: IPv4 Reassembly Errors at High Data Rates
Informative reference — RFC 5722: Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments
Informative reference — RFC 1624: Computation of the Internet Checksum via Incremental Update
Informative reference — RFC 1141: Incremental updating of the Internet checksum
Informative reference — RFC 5097: MIB for the UDP-Lite protocol

Incoming relationships (15 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8926: Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8724: SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8304: Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9299: An Architectural Introduction to the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9300: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7450: Automatic Multicast Tunneling
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7821: UDP Checksum Complement in the Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7820: UDP Checksum Complement in the One-Way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP) and Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9305: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Generic Protocol Extension