RFC 7084: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers

This document specifies requirements for an IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) router. Specifically, the current version of this document focuses on the basic…

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Outgoing relationships (35 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 6204: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 5905: Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
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 3633: IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6
Normative reference — RFC 3704: Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks
Normative reference — RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
Normative reference — RFC 4632: Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan
Normative reference — RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Normative reference — RFC 6333: Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4 Exhaustion
Normative reference — RFC 4191: Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
Normative reference — RFC 3646: DNS Configuration options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 5969: IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd) -- Protocol Specification
Normative reference — RFC 3736: Stateless Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 4605: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) / Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)-Based Multicast Forwarding ("IGMP/MLD Proxying")
Normative reference — RFC 5072: IP Version 6 over PPP
Normative reference — RFC 6092: Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service
Normative reference — RFC 6106: IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration
Normative reference — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normative reference — RFC 6177: IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites
Normative reference — RFC 4242: Information Refresh Time Option for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 6334: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Option for Dual-Stack Lite
Normative reference — RFC 6603: Prefix Exclude Option for DHCPv6-based Prefix Delegation
Normative reference — RFC 5942: IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes
Normative reference — RFC 7083: Modification to Default Values of SOL_MAX_RT and INF_MAX_RT
Normative reference — RFC 4779: ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access Networks
Normative reference — RFC 5908: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server Option for DHCPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6144: Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation

Incoming relationships (13 related RFCs)

Updated by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 9096: Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering Events
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9818: DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation on IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Routers in LANs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7788: Home Networking Control Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7503: OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7550: Issues and Recommendations with Multiple Stateful DHCPv6 Options
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7849: An IPv6 Profile for 3GPP Mobile Devices
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 9762: Using Router Advertisements to Signal the Availability of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation to Clients
Informatively referenced by — RFC 10038: Distributing the Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Locator Using DHCPv6